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

952 DEINOMACHUS.
statesman were, according to Polybius, of the most
superficial character. In political foresight, for instance, he was utterly deficient. (Polyb. xxiv. 5,
12; Liv. xxxix. 49; Plut. Philop. 18-21, Flam.
20; Paus. iv. 29.) [E. E.]
DEINO'CRATES (AewoKpacivis), a most distinguished Macedonian architect in the time of
Alexander the Great. RHe wis the architect of the
new temple of Artemis at Ephesus, which was built
after the destruction of the former temple by Herostratus. [CHERSIPHRON.] He was employed by
Alexander, whom he accompanied into Egypt, in the
building of Alexandria. Deinocrates laid out the
ground and erected several of the principal buildings.
Besides the works which he actually erected, he
formed a design for cutting mount Athos into a
statue of Alexander, to whom he presented his
plan upon his accession to the throne; but the
king forbad the execution of the project. The
right hand of the figure was to have held a city,
and in the left there would have been a basin, in
which the water of all the mountain streams was
to pour, and thence into the sea. Another curious
work which he did not live to finish, is mentioned
undei ARSINOE [pp. 366, 367]: this fixes the
time of the architect's death. The so-called monument of Hephaestion by Deinocrates was only
a funeral pile (n-vpa, Diod. xvii. 115), though a
very magnificent one. It formed a pyramid, risingn
in successive terraces, all adorned with great
magnificence. (Plin. v. 10, s. 11, vii. 37, s. 38,
xxxiv. 14, s. 42; Vitruv. i. 1. ~ 4, ii. praef.; Strab.
xiv. pp. 640, 641; Val. Max. i. 4, ext. 1; Amm.
Marc. xxii. 16; Solin. 35, 43; Plut. Alex. 72, de
Alex. Virt. ii. ~ 2; Lucian, pro Inmac. 9, de consorib. Hist. 12; Tzetz. Chil. viii. 199, xi. 367.)
There is immense confusion among these writers
about the architect's name. Pliny calls him Dinochares, or, according to some of the MSS., Tymochares or Timocrates; Strabo has XeipoicpdrTJs;
Plutarch, 'rao-1Kcpa-rs!; and, among other variations, Eustathius (ad Homn. II.,. 229) calls him
Diocles of Rhegium. [P. S.]
DEINO'LOCHUS (AePo'Aoxos), a comic poet
of Syracuse or Agrigentum, was, according to
some, the son, according to others, the disciple, of
Epicharmus. He lived about B. c. 488, and wrote
fourteen plays in the Doric dialect, about which
we only know, from a few titles, that some of them
were on mythological subjects. (Suid. s. v.; Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. ii. p. 436; Grysar, de Doriens. Cosm.
i. p. 81.) [P. S.]
DEINO'MACHIA (AELsvogadX), daughter of
Megacles, the head of the Alcmaeonidae, granddaughter of Cleisthenes, and mother of Alcibiades.
(Plut. Ale. 1; Athen. v. p. 219, c.; Ael. V. H.
ii. 1; see also ALCIBIADES, p. 99, a., and the passages there referred to.) [E. E.]
DEINO'MACIHUS (Ae4vc'aXos), a philosopher, who agreed with Calliphon in considering the
chief good to consist in the union of virtue with
bodily pleasure, which Cicero calls a joining of the
man with the beast. The doctrine is thus further
explained by Clement of Alexandria.- Pleasure
and virtue are both of them ends to man; but
pleasure is so from the first, while virtue only becomes
so after experience. (Cic. de Fin. v. 8, de COf iii.
33, Tusc. Quaest. v. 30; Clem. Alex. Strom. ii.
21.) The Deinomachus, whom Lucian introduces
in the Philopseudes, is of course a different person,
and possibly a fictitious character. [E. E.j

DEINOSTRATUS.
DEINO'MENES (Aeivomevfps). 1. Father of
Gelon, Hiero, and Thrasybulus, succesively tyrants
of Syracuse. (Herod. vii. 145; Pind. Pyth. i.
154, ii. 34.)
2. One of the guards of Hieronymus, king of
Syracuse, in the plot against whose life he joined.
When Hieronymus had marched into Leontini,
and had arrived opposite the house where the
murderers were posted, Deinomenes, who was close
behind him, stopped under pretence of extricating
his foot from a knot which confined it, and thus
checked the advance of the multitude, and separated
the king from his guards. The assassins then
rushed on Hieronymus and slew him. (B. c. 215.)
His attendants turned their weapons against Deinomenes, but he escaped with a few wounds, and
was soon after elected by the Syracusans one of
their generals. (Liv. xxiv. 7, 23.) [E. E.]
DEINO'MENES (AemYogEais), a statuary,
whose statues of lo, the daughter of Inachus, and
Callisto, the daughter of Lycaon, stood in the
Acropolis at Athens in the time of Pausanias.
(Paus. i. 25. ~ 1.) Pliny (xxxiv. 8. s. 19) mentions him among the artists who flourished in the
95th Olympiad, B. c. 400, and adds, that he made
statues of Protesila'is and Pythodemus the wrestler. (Ib. ~ 15.) Tatian mentions a statue by him
of Besantis, queen of the Paeonians. (Oralt. ad
Graec. 53, p. 116, ed. Worth.) His name appears
on a base, the statue belonging to which is lost.
(Bfickh, Corp. Inscrip, i. No. 470.) [P. S.]
DEINON (Aelvcow), one of the chief men of
Rhodes, who, when the war broke out between
Perseus and the Romans (B. C. 171), vainly endeavoured to induce his countrymen to pay no
regard to the letter which C. Lucretius had sent to
ask for ships, and which Deinon pretended was a
forgery of their enemy Eumenes, king of Pergamus,
designed to involve them in a ruinous war. But,
though he failed on this occasion, he still kept up
a strong opposition to the Roman party. In B. c.
167, after the defeat of Perseus, the Rhodians delivered him up to the Romans by way of propitiating them. Polybius calls him a bold and
covetous adventurer, and censures him for what he
considers an unmanly clinging to life after the ruin
of his fortunes. (Polyb. xxvii. 6, 11, xxviii. 2, xxix.
5, xxx. 6-8; Liv. xliv. 23, 29, xlv. 22.) [E. E.]
DEINON or DINON (A~hvwM, Aivwv), father
of Cleitarchus, the historian of Alexander's expedition. He wrote a history of Persia, to which C.
Nepos (Con. 5) refers as the most trustworthy
authority on the subject. He had, however, a
large fund of credulity, if we may trust Pliny.
(H. N. x. 49.) He is quoted also in the following
passages:-Plut. Alex. 36, Artax. 1, 6, 9, 10, 13,
19, 22, Them. 27; Athen. ii. p. 67, b., iv. p.
146, c., xi. p. 503, f., xiii. pp. 556, b., 560, f.,
609, a., xiv. pp. 633, d., 652, b.; Cic. de Div. i.
23; Ael. H. A. xvii. 10, V. H. vii. i.; Diog.
Labrt. i. 8, ix. 50, in which two passages we also
find the erroneous reading Aiwv. [E. E.]
DEINO'STRATUS (AsEvo'irparos),a geometer.
HIe is stated by Proclus to have been the brother
of Menaechmus, and a contemporary and follower
of Plato. (Conm. in End. c. iv.) The two brothers, according to Proclus, made the whole of geometry more perfect (reAewrcipav) than before.
Pappus (lib. iv. prop. 25) has handed down the
curve which is called the quadratrix of Deinostratio for squaring the circle, which Nicomedes and