It is uncertain whether he is a son of the serve their
features
perfectly.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
Niclas.
).
Ilis writ- D11'TREPES (AuTons, Thuc.
vi.
2:1),
ings would seem to have been extant in the seven- probably distinct from the Divtrephes of Thuc. viii.
teenth century, or at least they were supposed to 64, was entrusted, E. C. 413, with the charge of
be so, as Salmasius expected to receive a MS, of carrying home the Thracian mercenaries who ar-
liis work de Plantis from Italy. (Lije prefired to rived at Athens too late to sail for Syracuse with
his Letters, p. 39. )
(W. A. G. ) Demosthenes, and were, to save expense, at once
DIESPITER. [JUPITER. ]
dismissed. He made on the way descents upon
DIEUCITES (Aretxns), a Greck physician, who Boeotia at Tanagra, and at Vycleosis, the latter
lived probably in the fourth century B. C. , and be of which places he surprised, and gave up to the
Jonged to the medical sect of the Dogmatici. (Ga- savage butchery of his barbarians. Boeotian forces
len, de l'en. Sect. adr. Erasistr. c. 5, vol. xi. p. 163; came up with them, however, in their retreat to
comp. Id. de Simplic. Melioun. Temper, ac Fucult. the slips, and cut down a considerable number.
vi. prooem. vol. xi. p. 795, de Meth. Med. i. 33, Ditrephes himself not improbnbly fell. Pausanins
vii. 3, vol. x. pp. 28, 462, Comment. in Ilippocr. (i. 23. $S 2, 3) saw a statue of him at Aibens,
“de Nut. JJom. " ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136. ) Ile was representing him as pierced with arrows; and an
tutor 10 Numenius of lleraclea (Athen. i. p. 5. inscription containing his name, which was doubt-
§ 8), and is several times quoted by Pliny. (II. N. less cut on the basement of this statue, has been
xx. 15, 33, 73, xxiii. 29, xxiv. 9. 2. ) lle wrote recently discovered at Athens, and is given on
some medical works, of which nothing but a p. 890, a. This Diitrephes is probably the same
few fragnents remain. (Ruf. Ephes. , ed. Matthaei; as the Ditrephes mentioned by Aristophanes
XX7 let. Medic. Gruec. Opusc. ed. Matthaei ; (Ares, 798, 1440), satirized in one place
as a leader
C. G. Kühn, Adlitum. ad Elench. Medic. Vet. a of the fashion of chariot-driving; in another as a
J. A. Fabric. exhibit. fasc. xiii. p. 6. ) [W. A. G. ] forward upstart, who had advanced himself, if the
DIEU'CHIDAS (Alevxíðas), of Megara, a Scholiast understood the joke, to military office by
Cireek historian who wrote a history of Megara the trade of basket-making. The date of “ " thie
(Meyapıká), which consisted of at least five books. Birds," B. C. 414, would be rather a confirmation
(Clem. Alex. Strom. i. p. 141, vi. p. 267; Diog. of the identity of the two.
[A. H. C. ]
Laërt. j. 57; Comp. Harpocrat. s. v. ayuiâs. ) The DI'LLIUS APONIANUS. (APONIANUS. ]
age of Dieuchidas is unknown, but his work is DI'LLIUS VO'CULA. [Vocula. ]
frequently referred to by the ancients, and his DINDY ME'NE (Anvāvurun or Alvouuévn), a
name often appears in a corrupt form. (Schol. ad surname of Cybele, derived either from mount
Apollon. Rhod. i. 118, 517, where his name is Dindymus in Phrygin, where a temple was believed
Aipnxíðas ; Steph. Byz. s. r. Skippai; Athen. vi. to have been built to her by the Argonauts (A pol-
p. 262; Ilarpocrat. s. v. r epavia; Schol. and Pind. Ion. Rhod. i. 985, with the Schol. ; Strab. xii. p.
Nem. ix. 30; Plut. Luc. 2, in the last two passages 575; Callim. Epigr. 42 ; Horat. Carm. i. 16. 5;
Aleutvxidas ; Schol. ad Aristoph. Vesp. 870; Eudoc. Catull. 63, 91; Serv. ad Aen. ix, 617), or from
p. 286, where the name is Dirychias. ) (L. S. ] Dindyme, the wife of Maeon and mother of Cybele.
SEX. DIGI'TIUS. 1. An Italian, who served (Diod. iii. 58. )
[L. S. ]
as a marine (socius naralis) under the great P. DINON. (Deixon. ]
Corn. Scipio Africanus. After the taking of New DIOCLEIDES (Alok Nelons), an Athenian, who,
Carthage in B. C. 210, Sex. Digitius and Q. Tre- when the people were highly excited about the
bellius were rewarded by Scipio with the corona mutilation of the Hermae, B. C. 415, and ready to
muralis, for the two men disputed as to which of credit any information whatever, came forward and
them bad first scaled the walls of the place. (Liv. told the following story to the council :-Private
xxvi. 48. ) It must be supposed that Digitius business having taken him from home on the night
was further rewarded for his bravery with the on which the busts were defaced, he had seen
Roman franchise ; for his son, or perhaps he him- about 300 men enter the orchestra of the theatre,
self, is mentioned as praetor in B. c. 194.
and was able by the light of the full moon to ob.
2.
It is uncertain whether he is a son of the serve their features perfectly. At the time he had
Digitius who served in Spain under Scipio, or no idea of the purpose of their assembling, but the
whether he is identical with him, though the for- next day he heard of the affair of the Hermae, and
mer is more probable. He was praetor in B. c. taxed some of the 300 with it. They bribed him
194, and obtained southern Spain as his province. to secresy by the promise of two talents, which
After the departure of M. Cato, several of the they afterwards refused to pay, and he had there.
Spanish tribes again revolted, and Digitius had to fore come to give information. This story was
fight many battles against them, in most of which implicitly believed at the time, and a number of
he was so unsuccessful, that at the termination of persons mentioned as guilty by Diocleides were
his office his forces were reduced to half of their imprisoned, while the informer himself received a
original number. In B. c. 190 he was appointed crown of honour and a public entertainment in the
legate by the consul L. Corn. Scipio Asiaticus ; | Prytaneium. Soon afterwards, however, Ando-
and, conjointly with two others, he was com- cides (who with several of his relations was among
missioned to collect a fleet at Brundusium from the prisoners) came forward with his version of
all parts of the coast. In B. c. 174 he was one of the matter, which contradicted that of Diocleides.
the ambassadors sent to Macedonia, and in the It was also remembered that the moon was not
year following he was sent to Apulia to purchase visible on the night on which the latter professed
provisions for the fleet and the army. (Liv. xxxv. to have marked by its light the faces of the ac-
1, 2, xxxvii. 4, xli. 22, xlii. 27; Oros. iv. 22, cused. He was driven, therefore, to confess that
where he is erroneously called Publius. ) The his evidence was false, and he added (which was,
military tribune, Sex. Digitius, who is mentioned perhaps, equally false), that he had been suborned
by Livy (xliii. 11) about the same time, is probably to give it by two men named Alcibiades and Ami-
a son of our Sex. Digitius.
[L. S. ]
Both of these sought safety by flight, and
antus,
3 т
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DIOCLES.
DIOCLES.
accents.
Diocleides was put to death. (Andoc. de Myst. I died about this time, as we find no mention of liis
PI. 6-9 ; lúc. vi. 60 ; Phry, ap. J'at. Alc. pame in the civil dissensions which led to the
20 ; Dind. xiii. 2. )
[E. E. ] clevation of Dionysius. (Hubmann, Diokles Gesetz-
DIOCLEIDES (Alokleions ), of Abdera, is geber der Syrukusiet, Amberg, 1842. ) [E. JI. B. ]
mentioned in Athenacus (for this seems to be the DI'OCLES (Alokañs). 1. A brave Athenian, who
meaning of the passage) as having admirably de- lived in exile at Megara. Once in a battle he pro-
scribed the famous engine called 'Edénonis (the tected with his shield a youth whom he loved, but
City-taker), which was made by Epimachus the he lost his own life in consequence.
The Mega-
Athenian for Demetrius Poliorceies at the siege of rians rewarded the gallant man with the honours
Rhodes. (Ath. v. p. 206, d. ; Diod. xx. 91 ; of a hero, and instituted the festival of the Dio-
Wesseling, ad loc. ; Plut. Demetr. 21 ; Vitruv. x. cleia, which they celebrated in the spring of every
22. )
[E. E. ) year. (Thcocrit. xii. 27, &c. ; Aristoph. Acharn.
DIOCLES (A10KAñs), the son of Orsilochus and 774 ; Plut. Thes. 10; Dict. of Ant. s. v. Atókhera. )
father of Crethon and Orsilochus, was a king of 2. The name of three wealthy Sicilians who were
Phere. (Hom. II. v. 540, &c. , Od. iii. 488 ; Paus. robbed by Verres and his satellites. (Cic. in Verr.
iii. 30. $ 2. )
(L. S. ] nji. 50, 40, v. 7, iv. 16. )
[L. S. ]
DI'OCLES (ALOkins), a Syracusan, celebrated DI'OCLES (ALOKAS), literary. 1. Of ATHENS.
for his code of laws. No mention of his name oc- See below.
curs in Thucydides, but according to Diodorus he 2. Of Csidus, a Platonic philosopher, who is
was the proposer of the decree for putting to death mentioned as the author of Alatpical, from which
the Athenian generals Demosthenes and Nicias. a fragment is quoted in Eusebius. (Pruip. Erang.
(Diod. xiii. 19. ) He is called by Diodorus upon xiv. p. 731. )
this occasion the most eminent of the demagogues 3. A Greek GRAMMARIAN, who wrote upon the
at Syracuse, and appears to have been at this time Homeric poems, and is mentioned in the Venetian
the leader of the popular or democratic party, in Scholia (ad Il. xiii. 103) along with Dionysius Thrax,
opposition to Hermocrates. The next year (B. c. Aristarchus, and Chacris on the subject of Greek
412), if the chronology of Diodorus be correct, a
A dream of his is related by Artemi-
democratic revolution took place, and Diocles was dorus. (Oncir. iv. 72. )
appointed with several others to frame and establish 4. Of MAGNESIA, was the author of a work
a new code of laws. In this he took so prominent entitled étropOur Twv diaocóowv, and of a second
a part, that he threw his colleagues quite into the on the lives of philosophers (περί βίων φιλοσόφων),
shade, and the code was ever after known as that of both of which Diogenes Laertius appears to
of Diocles. We know nothing of its details, but have made great use. (ii
. 82, vi. 12, 13, 20, 36,
it is praised by Diodorus for its conciseness of 87, 91, 99, 103, vii. 43, 162, 166, 179, 181, ix.
style, and the care with which it distinguished 61, 65, x. 12. )
different offences and assigned to each its peculiar 5. Of PEPARETH US, the earliest Greek historian,
penalty. The best proof of its merit is, that it who wrote about the foundation of Rome, and
continued to be followed as a civil code not only whom Q. Fabius Pictor is said to have followed in a
at Syracuse, but in many others of the Sicilian great many points. (Plut. Rom. 3, 8; Fest. s. r.
cities, until the island was subjected to the Roman Romam. ) How long he lived before the time of
law, (Diod. xiii. 35. )
Fabius Pictor, is unknown. Whether he is the
The banishment of Hermocrates and his party same as the author of a work on heroes (tepi
(B. C. 410 ; see Xen. Hell. i. 1. $ 27) must have vipuwv cúvtayua), which is mentioned by Plutarch
left Diocles undisputed leader of the commonwealth. (Quaest. Graec. 40), and of a history of Persia
The next year he commanded the forces sent by (recoiká), which is quoted by Josephus (Ant. Jud.
Syracuse and the other cities of Sicily to the relief x. 11. § 1), is likewise uncertain, and it may be
of Himera, besieged by Hannibal, the son of Gisco. that the last two works belong to Diocles of
He was, however, unable to avert its fate, and Rhodes, whose work on Aetolia (Altwiká) is
withdrew from the city, carrying off as many as referred to by Plutarch. (De Flum. 22. )
possible of the inhabitants, but in such baste that 6. Of Sybaris, a Pythagorean philosopher
he did not stay to bury those of his troops who (lamb. Vit. Pyth. 36), who must be diætinguished
had fallen in battle. (Diod. xiii. 59-61. ) This from another Pythagorean, Diocles of Phlius, who
circumstance probably gave rise to discontent at is mentioned by lamblichus (Vit. Putiag. 35) as
Syracuse, which was increased when Hermocrates, one of the most zealous followers of Pythagoras.
having returned to Sicily and obtained some suc- The latter Diocles was still alive in the time of
cesses against the Carthaginians, sent back the Aristoxenus (Diog. Laërt. viii. 46), but further
bones of those who had perished at Himera with particulars are not known about him. [L. S. ]
the highest honours. The revulsion of feeling thus DI'OCLES (A10kañs), of Athens, or, according
excited led to the banishment of Diocles, B. C. 408.
ings would seem to have been extant in the seven- probably distinct from the Divtrephes of Thuc. viii.
teenth century, or at least they were supposed to 64, was entrusted, E. C. 413, with the charge of
be so, as Salmasius expected to receive a MS, of carrying home the Thracian mercenaries who ar-
liis work de Plantis from Italy. (Lije prefired to rived at Athens too late to sail for Syracuse with
his Letters, p. 39. )
(W. A. G. ) Demosthenes, and were, to save expense, at once
DIESPITER. [JUPITER. ]
dismissed. He made on the way descents upon
DIEUCITES (Aretxns), a Greck physician, who Boeotia at Tanagra, and at Vycleosis, the latter
lived probably in the fourth century B. C. , and be of which places he surprised, and gave up to the
Jonged to the medical sect of the Dogmatici. (Ga- savage butchery of his barbarians. Boeotian forces
len, de l'en. Sect. adr. Erasistr. c. 5, vol. xi. p. 163; came up with them, however, in their retreat to
comp. Id. de Simplic. Melioun. Temper, ac Fucult. the slips, and cut down a considerable number.
vi. prooem. vol. xi. p. 795, de Meth. Med. i. 33, Ditrephes himself not improbnbly fell. Pausanins
vii. 3, vol. x. pp. 28, 462, Comment. in Ilippocr. (i. 23. $S 2, 3) saw a statue of him at Aibens,
“de Nut. JJom. " ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136. ) Ile was representing him as pierced with arrows; and an
tutor 10 Numenius of lleraclea (Athen. i. p. 5. inscription containing his name, which was doubt-
§ 8), and is several times quoted by Pliny. (II. N. less cut on the basement of this statue, has been
xx. 15, 33, 73, xxiii. 29, xxiv. 9. 2. ) lle wrote recently discovered at Athens, and is given on
some medical works, of which nothing but a p. 890, a. This Diitrephes is probably the same
few fragnents remain. (Ruf. Ephes. , ed. Matthaei; as the Ditrephes mentioned by Aristophanes
XX7 let. Medic. Gruec. Opusc. ed. Matthaei ; (Ares, 798, 1440), satirized in one place
as a leader
C. G. Kühn, Adlitum. ad Elench. Medic. Vet. a of the fashion of chariot-driving; in another as a
J. A. Fabric. exhibit. fasc. xiii. p. 6. ) [W. A. G. ] forward upstart, who had advanced himself, if the
DIEU'CHIDAS (Alevxíðas), of Megara, a Scholiast understood the joke, to military office by
Cireek historian who wrote a history of Megara the trade of basket-making. The date of “ " thie
(Meyapıká), which consisted of at least five books. Birds," B. C. 414, would be rather a confirmation
(Clem. Alex. Strom. i. p. 141, vi. p. 267; Diog. of the identity of the two.
[A. H. C. ]
Laërt. j. 57; Comp. Harpocrat. s. v. ayuiâs. ) The DI'LLIUS APONIANUS. (APONIANUS. ]
age of Dieuchidas is unknown, but his work is DI'LLIUS VO'CULA. [Vocula. ]
frequently referred to by the ancients, and his DINDY ME'NE (Anvāvurun or Alvouuévn), a
name often appears in a corrupt form. (Schol. ad surname of Cybele, derived either from mount
Apollon. Rhod. i. 118, 517, where his name is Dindymus in Phrygin, where a temple was believed
Aipnxíðas ; Steph. Byz. s. r. Skippai; Athen. vi. to have been built to her by the Argonauts (A pol-
p. 262; Ilarpocrat. s. v. r epavia; Schol. and Pind. Ion. Rhod. i. 985, with the Schol. ; Strab. xii. p.
Nem. ix. 30; Plut. Luc. 2, in the last two passages 575; Callim. Epigr. 42 ; Horat. Carm. i. 16. 5;
Aleutvxidas ; Schol. ad Aristoph. Vesp. 870; Eudoc. Catull. 63, 91; Serv. ad Aen. ix, 617), or from
p. 286, where the name is Dirychias. ) (L. S. ] Dindyme, the wife of Maeon and mother of Cybele.
SEX. DIGI'TIUS. 1. An Italian, who served (Diod. iii. 58. )
[L. S. ]
as a marine (socius naralis) under the great P. DINON. (Deixon. ]
Corn. Scipio Africanus. After the taking of New DIOCLEIDES (Alok Nelons), an Athenian, who,
Carthage in B. C. 210, Sex. Digitius and Q. Tre- when the people were highly excited about the
bellius were rewarded by Scipio with the corona mutilation of the Hermae, B. C. 415, and ready to
muralis, for the two men disputed as to which of credit any information whatever, came forward and
them bad first scaled the walls of the place. (Liv. told the following story to the council :-Private
xxvi. 48. ) It must be supposed that Digitius business having taken him from home on the night
was further rewarded for his bravery with the on which the busts were defaced, he had seen
Roman franchise ; for his son, or perhaps he him- about 300 men enter the orchestra of the theatre,
self, is mentioned as praetor in B. c. 194.
and was able by the light of the full moon to ob.
2.
It is uncertain whether he is a son of the serve their features perfectly. At the time he had
Digitius who served in Spain under Scipio, or no idea of the purpose of their assembling, but the
whether he is identical with him, though the for- next day he heard of the affair of the Hermae, and
mer is more probable. He was praetor in B. c. taxed some of the 300 with it. They bribed him
194, and obtained southern Spain as his province. to secresy by the promise of two talents, which
After the departure of M. Cato, several of the they afterwards refused to pay, and he had there.
Spanish tribes again revolted, and Digitius had to fore come to give information. This story was
fight many battles against them, in most of which implicitly believed at the time, and a number of
he was so unsuccessful, that at the termination of persons mentioned as guilty by Diocleides were
his office his forces were reduced to half of their imprisoned, while the informer himself received a
original number. In B. c. 190 he was appointed crown of honour and a public entertainment in the
legate by the consul L. Corn. Scipio Asiaticus ; | Prytaneium. Soon afterwards, however, Ando-
and, conjointly with two others, he was com- cides (who with several of his relations was among
missioned to collect a fleet at Brundusium from the prisoners) came forward with his version of
all parts of the coast. In B. c. 174 he was one of the matter, which contradicted that of Diocleides.
the ambassadors sent to Macedonia, and in the It was also remembered that the moon was not
year following he was sent to Apulia to purchase visible on the night on which the latter professed
provisions for the fleet and the army. (Liv. xxxv. to have marked by its light the faces of the ac-
1, 2, xxxvii. 4, xli. 22, xlii. 27; Oros. iv. 22, cused. He was driven, therefore, to confess that
where he is erroneously called Publius. ) The his evidence was false, and he added (which was,
military tribune, Sex. Digitius, who is mentioned perhaps, equally false), that he had been suborned
by Livy (xliii. 11) about the same time, is probably to give it by two men named Alcibiades and Ami-
a son of our Sex. Digitius.
[L. S. ]
Both of these sought safety by flight, and
antus,
3 т
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DIOCLES.
DIOCLES.
accents.
Diocleides was put to death. (Andoc. de Myst. I died about this time, as we find no mention of liis
PI. 6-9 ; lúc. vi. 60 ; Phry, ap. J'at. Alc. pame in the civil dissensions which led to the
20 ; Dind. xiii. 2. )
[E. E. ] clevation of Dionysius. (Hubmann, Diokles Gesetz-
DIOCLEIDES (Alokleions ), of Abdera, is geber der Syrukusiet, Amberg, 1842. ) [E. JI. B. ]
mentioned in Athenacus (for this seems to be the DI'OCLES (Alokañs). 1. A brave Athenian, who
meaning of the passage) as having admirably de- lived in exile at Megara. Once in a battle he pro-
scribed the famous engine called 'Edénonis (the tected with his shield a youth whom he loved, but
City-taker), which was made by Epimachus the he lost his own life in consequence.
The Mega-
Athenian for Demetrius Poliorceies at the siege of rians rewarded the gallant man with the honours
Rhodes. (Ath. v. p. 206, d. ; Diod. xx. 91 ; of a hero, and instituted the festival of the Dio-
Wesseling, ad loc. ; Plut. Demetr. 21 ; Vitruv. x. cleia, which they celebrated in the spring of every
22. )
[E. E. ) year. (Thcocrit. xii. 27, &c. ; Aristoph. Acharn.
DIOCLES (A10KAñs), the son of Orsilochus and 774 ; Plut. Thes. 10; Dict. of Ant. s. v. Atókhera. )
father of Crethon and Orsilochus, was a king of 2. The name of three wealthy Sicilians who were
Phere. (Hom. II. v. 540, &c. , Od. iii. 488 ; Paus. robbed by Verres and his satellites. (Cic. in Verr.
iii. 30. $ 2. )
(L. S. ] nji. 50, 40, v. 7, iv. 16. )
[L. S. ]
DI'OCLES (ALOkins), a Syracusan, celebrated DI'OCLES (ALOKAS), literary. 1. Of ATHENS.
for his code of laws. No mention of his name oc- See below.
curs in Thucydides, but according to Diodorus he 2. Of Csidus, a Platonic philosopher, who is
was the proposer of the decree for putting to death mentioned as the author of Alatpical, from which
the Athenian generals Demosthenes and Nicias. a fragment is quoted in Eusebius. (Pruip. Erang.
(Diod. xiii. 19. ) He is called by Diodorus upon xiv. p. 731. )
this occasion the most eminent of the demagogues 3. A Greek GRAMMARIAN, who wrote upon the
at Syracuse, and appears to have been at this time Homeric poems, and is mentioned in the Venetian
the leader of the popular or democratic party, in Scholia (ad Il. xiii. 103) along with Dionysius Thrax,
opposition to Hermocrates. The next year (B. c. Aristarchus, and Chacris on the subject of Greek
412), if the chronology of Diodorus be correct, a
A dream of his is related by Artemi-
democratic revolution took place, and Diocles was dorus. (Oncir. iv. 72. )
appointed with several others to frame and establish 4. Of MAGNESIA, was the author of a work
a new code of laws. In this he took so prominent entitled étropOur Twv diaocóowv, and of a second
a part, that he threw his colleagues quite into the on the lives of philosophers (περί βίων φιλοσόφων),
shade, and the code was ever after known as that of both of which Diogenes Laertius appears to
of Diocles. We know nothing of its details, but have made great use. (ii
. 82, vi. 12, 13, 20, 36,
it is praised by Diodorus for its conciseness of 87, 91, 99, 103, vii. 43, 162, 166, 179, 181, ix.
style, and the care with which it distinguished 61, 65, x. 12. )
different offences and assigned to each its peculiar 5. Of PEPARETH US, the earliest Greek historian,
penalty. The best proof of its merit is, that it who wrote about the foundation of Rome, and
continued to be followed as a civil code not only whom Q. Fabius Pictor is said to have followed in a
at Syracuse, but in many others of the Sicilian great many points. (Plut. Rom. 3, 8; Fest. s. r.
cities, until the island was subjected to the Roman Romam. ) How long he lived before the time of
law, (Diod. xiii. 35. )
Fabius Pictor, is unknown. Whether he is the
The banishment of Hermocrates and his party same as the author of a work on heroes (tepi
(B. C. 410 ; see Xen. Hell. i. 1. $ 27) must have vipuwv cúvtayua), which is mentioned by Plutarch
left Diocles undisputed leader of the commonwealth. (Quaest. Graec. 40), and of a history of Persia
The next year he commanded the forces sent by (recoiká), which is quoted by Josephus (Ant. Jud.
Syracuse and the other cities of Sicily to the relief x. 11. § 1), is likewise uncertain, and it may be
of Himera, besieged by Hannibal, the son of Gisco. that the last two works belong to Diocles of
He was, however, unable to avert its fate, and Rhodes, whose work on Aetolia (Altwiká) is
withdrew from the city, carrying off as many as referred to by Plutarch. (De Flum. 22. )
possible of the inhabitants, but in such baste that 6. Of Sybaris, a Pythagorean philosopher
he did not stay to bury those of his troops who (lamb. Vit. Pyth. 36), who must be diætinguished
had fallen in battle. (Diod. xiii. 59-61. ) This from another Pythagorean, Diocles of Phlius, who
circumstance probably gave rise to discontent at is mentioned by lamblichus (Vit. Putiag. 35) as
Syracuse, which was increased when Hermocrates, one of the most zealous followers of Pythagoras.
having returned to Sicily and obtained some suc- The latter Diocles was still alive in the time of
cesses against the Carthaginians, sent back the Aristoxenus (Diog. Laërt. viii. 46), but further
bones of those who had perished at Himera with particulars are not known about him. [L. S. ]
the highest honours. The revulsion of feeling thus DI'OCLES (A10kañs), of Athens, or, according
excited led to the banishment of Diocles, B. C. 408.
