Xenocrates resented the Macedonian influence then dominant at Athens. Soon after the death of Demosthenes (c. 322 BC), he declined the citizenship offered to him at the insistence of Phocion as a reward for his services in negotiating peace with Antipater after Athens' unsuccessful rebellion. The settlement was reached "at the price of a constitutional change: thousands of poor Athenians were disenfranchised," and Xenocrates said "that he did not want to become a citizen within a constitution he had struggled to prevent". citing and . Being unable to pay the tax levied upon resident aliens, he is said to have been saved only by the courage of the orator Lycurgus,Plutarch, Flamin. c. 12, X. Orat. Vitae, 7; but compare Phocion, c. 29 or even to have been bought by Demetrius Phalereus, and then emancipated. In 314/3, he died from hitting his head, after tripping over a bronze pot in his house.
Xenocrates resented the Macedonian influence then ,dominant at Athens. Soon after the death of Demosthenes (c. 322 BC), he declined the citizenship offered to him at the insistence of Phocion as a reward for his services in negotiating peace with Antipater after Athens' unsuccessful rebellion. The settlement was reached "at the price of a constitutional change: thousands of poor Athenians were disenfranchised," and Xenocrates said "that he did not want to become a citizen within a constitution he had struggled to prevent". citing and . Being unable to pay the tax levied upon resident aliens ,he is said to have been saved only by the courage of the orator LycurgusPlutarch, Flamin. c. 12, X. Orat. Vitae, 7; but compare Phocion, c. 29 or even to have been bought by Demetrius Phalereus, and then emancipated. In 314/3, he di,ed from hitting his head after tripping over a bronze pot in his house.