A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

DIGITIUS.
e. 5, ii. 3, 14, 17, 26, &c., ed. Niclas.). His writings would seem to have been extant in the seventeenth century, or at least they were supposed to
be so, as Salmasius expected to receive a MS. of
his work de Plantis from Italy. (Life prefixed to
his Letters, p. 39.) [W. A. G.]
DIESPITER. [JUPITER.]
DIEUCHES (ALEIý?X), a Greek physician, who
lived probably in the fourth century B. c., and belonged to the medical sect of the Dogmatici. (Galen, de Fen. Sect. adv. Erasistr. c. 5, vol. xi. p. 163;
comp. Id. de Simplic. Medicam. Temper. ac Facult.
vi. prooem. vol. xi. p. 795, de Meth. Med. i. 3,
vii. 3, vol. x. pp. 28, 462, Comment. in Hippocr.
"de Nat. Hom." ii. 6, vol. xv. p. 136.) He was
tutor to Numenius of Heraclea (Athen. i. p. 5.
~ 8), and is several times quoted by Pliny. (H. N.
xx. 15, 33, 73, xxiii. 29, xxiv. 92.) He wrote
some medical works, of which nothing but a
few fragments remain. (Ruf. Ephes., ed. Matthaei;
XXI Vet. Medic. Grace. Opuse. ed. Matthaei;
C. G. Kiihn, Additam. ad Elench. Medic. Vet. a
J.A. Fabric. exhibit. fase. xiii. p.6.) [W. A. G.]
DIEU'CHIDAS (A1evxi8as), of Megara, a
Greek historian who wrote a history of Megara
(MeyMapULd), which consisted of at least five books.
(Clem. Alex. Strom. i. p. 141, vi. p. 267; Diog.
Laert. i. 57; Comp. Harpocrat. s. v. dyvids.) The
age of Dieuchidas is unknown, but his work is
frequently referred to by the ancients, and his
name often appears in a corrupt form. (Schol. ad
Apollon. Rhod. i. 118, 517, where his name is
Acpqblxas; Steph. Byz. s. v. tIcdplpa,; Athen. vi.
p. 262; Harpocrat. s. v. lepavia; Schol. ad Pind.
Nem. ix. 30; Plut. Lye. 2, in the last two passages
AlevvuXaas; Schol. ad Aristoph. Vesp. 870; Eudoc.
p. 286, where the name is Dirychias.) [L. S.]
SEX. DIGI'TIUS. 1. An Italian, who served
as a marine (socius navalis) under the great P.
Corn. Scipio Africanus. After the taking of New
Carthage in B. c. 210, Sex. Digitius and Q. Trebellius were rewarded by Scipio with the corona
muralis, for the two men disputed as to which of
them had first scaled the walls of the place. (Liv.
xxvi. 48.) It must be supposed that Digitius
was further rewarded for his bravery with the
Roman franchise; for his son, or perhaps he himself, is mentioned as praetor in B. c. 194.
2. It is uncertain whether he is a son of the
Digitius who served in Spain under Scipio, or
whether he is identical with him, though the former is more probable. He was praetor in B. c.
194, and obtained southern Spain as his province.
After the departure of M. Cato, several of the
Spanish tribes again revolted, and Digitius had to
fight many battles against them, in most of which
he was so unsuccessful, that at the termination of
his office his forces were reduced to half of their
original number. In B. c. 190 he was appointed
legate by the consul L. Corn. Scipio Asiaticus;
and, conjointly with two others, he was commissioned to collect a fleet at Brundusium from
all parts of the coast. In B. c. 174 he was one of
the ambassadors sent to Macedonia, and in the
year following he was sent to Apulia to purchase
provisions for the fleet and the army. (Liv. xxxv.
1, 2, xxxvii. 4, xli. 22, xlii. 27; Oros. iv. 22,
where he is erroneously called Publius.) The
military tribune, Sex. Digitius, who is mentioned
by Livy (xliii. 11) about the same time, is probably
a son of our Sex. Digitius. [L. S.]

DIOCLEIDES, 1009
DIFTREPHES (Aulrpinys, Thuc. vii. 29),
probably distinct from the Diotrephes of Thuc. viii.
64, was entrusted, B. c. 413, with the charge of
carrying home the Thracian mercenaries who arrived at Athens too late to sail for Syracuse with
Demosthenes, and were, to save expense, at once
dismissed. He made on the way descents upon
Boeotia at Tanagra, and at Mycalessus, the latter
of which places he surprised, and gave up to the
savage butchery of his barbarians. Boeotian forces
came up with them, however, in their retreat to
the ships, and cut down a considerable number.
Diitrephes himself not improbably fell. Pausanias
(i. 23. ~~ 2, 3) saw a statue of him at Athens,
representing him as pierced with arrows; and an
inscription containing his name, which was doubtless cut on the basement of this statue, has been
recently discovered at Athens, and is given on
p. 890, a. This Diitrephes is probably the same
as the Diitrephes mentioned by Aristophanes
(Aves, 798, 1440), satirized in one place as a leader
of the fashion of chariot-driving; in another as a
forward upstart, who had advanced himself, if the
Scholiast understood the joke, to military office by
the trade of basket-making. The date of " the
Birds," B. c. 414, would be rather a confirmation
of the identity of the two. [A. H. C.]
DI'LLIUS APONIA'NUS. [APONIANUS.]
DI'LLIUS VO'CULA. [VocULA.]
DINDYME'NE (AwVviuLv- or An'asiUEV), a
surname of Cybele, derived either from mount
Dindymus in Phrygia, where a temple was believed
to have been built to her by the Argonauts (Apollon. Rhod. i. 985, with the Schol.; Strab. xii. p.
575; Callim. Epig.r. 42; Horat. Carm. i. 16. 5;
Catull. 63, 91; Serv. ad Aen. ix. 617), or from
Dindyme, the wife of Maeon and mother of Cybele.
(Diod. iii. 58.) [L. S.]
DINON. [DEINON.]
DIOCLEIDES (AtorcAdies), an Athenian, who,
when the people were highly excited about the
mutilation of the Hermae,- B. c. 415, and ready to
credit any information whatever, came forward and
told the following story to the council:-Private
business having taken him from home on the night
on which the busts were defaced, he had seen
about 300 men enter the orchestra of the theatre,
and was able by the light of the full moon to observe their features perfectly. At the time he had
no idea of the purpose of their assembling, but the
next day he heard of the affair of the Hermae, and
taxed some of the 300 with it. They bribed him
to secresy by the promise of two talents, which
they afterwards refused to pay, and he had therefore come to give information. This story was
implicitly believed at the time, and a number of
persons mentioned as guilty by Diocleides were
imprisoned, while the informer himself received a
crown of honour and a public entertainment in the
Prytaneium. Soon afterwards, however, Andocides (who with several of his relations was among
the prisoners) came forward with his version of
the matter, which contradicted that of Diocleides.
It was also remembered that the moon was not
visible on the night on which the latter professed
to have marked by its light the faces of the accused. He was driven, therefore, to confess that
his evidence was false, and lie added (which was,
perhaps, equally false), that he had been suborned
to give it by two men named Alcibiades and Amiantus. Both of these sought safety by flight, and
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