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Rh liAIPIIANTTTS. Boiue other works. (Pans. vi. 2. § 4 ; 3. §§ 2, 3 ; 6. § 1, X. 9. § 3; Plin. xxxiv. «. s. 19. § 15.) 3. A statuary, born in Bithynia, whose statue of Zeus Stratius at Nicomedia was greatly admired. (Arrian, ap. Kustath. ad IHonys. Perieg. 796.) Hence he probably lived from the time of Alexan- der the Great downwards. (Thiersch, Epoch, p. 49.) [P. S.] DAEIRA (Aetfjpo or AoI/jo), that is, ''the knowing," a divinity connected with the Eleusi- nian mysteries. According to Pausanias (i. 38. § 7) slie was a daughter of Oceanus, and became by Hermes the mother of Eleusis ; but others called her a sister of Styx ; while a third account represents her as identical with Aphrodite, Deme- ter, Hera, or Persephone. (ApoSon. Rhod. iii. 847; Eustath, ad Horn. p. W6.) [L. S.] DAES (AoTjs), of Colonae, apparently an histo- rian, who wrote on the history of his native place. (Strab. xiii. p.612.) [L. S.] DAETONDAS (Ao(T(^./Saj), a statuary of Si- cyon, made a statue of the Eleian athlete Theoti- mus at Olympia. (Pans. vi. 17. § 3.) Since Moschion, the father of Theotimus, accompanied Alexander the Great into Asia, Daetondas proba- bly flourished from B. c. 320 downwards. [P. S.] DAI'iMACHUS or DEI'MACHUS (Aoi;uoxos or ATjt/xaxos), of Plataeae, a Greek historian, whose age is determined by the fact, that he was sent as ambassador to Allitrochades, the son of Androcottus or Sandrocottus, king of India (Strab. ii. p. 70), and Androcottus reigned at the time when Seleucus was laying the foundation of the subsequent greatness of his empire, about B.C. 312. (Justin. XV. 4.) This fact at once shews the im- possibility of what Casaubon {ad iJiog. Ixi'trt. i. 1 ) endeavoured to prove, that the historian Ephorus had stolen whole passages from Daimachus's work, since Ephorus lived and wrote before Daimachus. The latter wrote a work on India, which consisted of at least two books. He had probably acquired or at least increased his knowledge of those eastern countries during his embassy ; but Strabo never- theless places him at the head of those who had circulated false and fabulous accounts about India. (Comp. Athcn. ix. p. 394; Harpocrat. s. v. eyyv- QriKf]; Schol. ad Apollon.Bhofl. i. 5o8.) We have also mention of a very extensive work on sieges {'iroiopKr)TiKci virofxv^iMLTa) by one Daimachus, who is probably the same as the author of the Indica. If the reading in Stephanus of Byzantium (s. V. AaKeSaifiwy) is correct, the work on sieges consisted of at least 35 (Ae) books. (Comp. Eustath. ad Horn. 11. ii. 581.) The work on India is lost, but the one on sieges may possibly be still con- cealed somewhere, for Magius (in Gruter's Fax Artiuni, p. 1330) states, that he saw a MS. of it. It may be that our Daimachus is the same as the one quoted by Plutarch {Comparat. Solon, cum Publ. 4) as an authority on the military exploits of Solon. In another passage of Plutarch {Lysand. 12) one Laimaclms (according to the common read- ing) is mentioned as the author of a work ircpi €u(r€§€iay, and modem critics have changed the name Lai'machus into Daimachus, and consider him to be the same as the historian. In like manner it has been proposed in Diogenes Laertius (i. 30) to read Aofjuoxos 6 TlKarauvs instead of Aot'Saxos 6 riAaTwj/jKos, but these are only con- jectural emendations. [L. S.] DAIPHANTUS (Aatc^orros), a Theban, who DAMAGETUS. 929 was slain at the battle of Mantineia, a. c. 362. It is said that Epaminondas, after he had received his mortal wound, asked successively for Daiphan- tus and lolai'das, and, when he heard of their death, advised his countrymen to make peace. (Plut. Apophth. Epavu 24 ; Ael. T. //. xii. 3.) [E. E.] DAIPPUS or DAHIPPUS (AiXniros), a statuary who made statues of athletes (Pans. vi. 12. § 3, 16. § 4), and a statue which Pliny (xxxiv. 8. 8. 19. § 28) calls Perixyomenon, for which Brotier would read irapav6fjLfvou. He is mentioned in two other passages of Pliny (/. c. 19, 19. § 7), where all the MSS. give Laippus, through a confusion between A and A. From these two passages it appears that he was a son of Lysippus, and that he flourished in the 120th Olympiad, (b. c. 300, and onwards.) [P. S.] DA'LION, a writer on geography and botany, who is quoted by Pliny. (//. N. vi. 35, xx. 73.) He is mentioned among the foreign authors made use of by Pliny, and must have lived in or before the first century after Christ. [W. A. G.] DALMATIUS. [Delmatius.] DAMAGE'TUS (Aa/«£77jToy). 1. King of lalysus in Rhodes (contemporary with Ardys, king of Lydia, and Phraortes, king of Media)^ married, in obedience to the Delphic oracle, the daughter of Aristomenes of Messene, and from this marriage sprung the family of the Diagoridae, who were celebrated for their victories at Olympia. [ Aristombnes.] The following is their genealogy. Aristomenes. I daughter =t= Damagetus. (Diagoras.) Dorieus. I Damagetus. Diagoras. I I I I Damagetus. AcusilaUs. Dorieus. Callipateira. Eucles. Pherenice. Peisodorus. In this pedigree the name of the first Diagoras is inserted by Clavier and Clinton, to supply one generation, which seems to be wanting in Pausa- nias. 2. Of the second Damagetns nothing, is known but his name. 3. The third Damagetus was victor in the pancratium on the same day on which his brother Acusilaiis was victor in boxing. [Diagoras.} (Pind. 01. 7, rfnd Sehol ; Pa«s. iv. 24. § 1, vi. 7. §§ 1, 2; Aeliiin, V. II. x. 1; Cic. Tuse. i. 46; Clinton, Fast. Hell, i. pp. 254, 255.) [P. S.] DAMAGEI'US ( Aa//a7?7Tos ), the author of thirteen epigrams in the Greek Anthology, from the contents of some of which his rime is fixed at the end of the- third century ». c. He was in- cluded in the Garland of Meleager. It is not known whether he is the same person as the Demagettts who is cited by Stephanus Byzan- tinus (.V. V. *A»CT7)). The njune is also given by the Scholiast to ApoUonius Rhodius (i. 224) in the form Demagetus. (Brunck, Ancd. ii. 38, iii. 331 ; 3o