Diotimus
historical figure · 8 works · 9 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Diotimus, the son of Strombichus
in the texts
Hellenica
A representative of Alcibiades who exchanges oaths with Pharnabazus at Calchedon.
In the end, Alcibiades made oath at Chrysopolis to the representatives of Pharnabazus, Mitrobates and Arnapes, and Pharnabazus at Calchedon to the representatives of Alcibiades, Euryptolemus and Diotimus, both parties not only giving the official oath but also making personal pledges to one another.
But when Antalcidas heard that Nicolochus with his ships was being blockaded at Abydus by Iphicrates and Diotimus, he went overland to Abydus.
Stromata
Philosopher who declared the all-completeness of goods to be the end.
" Further, besides these, Diotimus declared the all-completeness of goods, which is named "well-being," to be the end.
Letters
An Athenian named among the deceased friends of the people listed together with Lycurgus as champions the city has lost.
So, when it is possible for all to behold object-lessons of such a kind and on such a scale, from which everyone would conclude that it does not pay to espouse the cause of the people, I begin to fear that some day you may become destitute of men who will speak on your behalf, especially when of the friends of the people some are being taken away by man’s natural destiny, by accident, and by the l …
On the Crown
Commander of cavalry crowned for contributing shields at private expense.
When Diotimus, and on another occasion Charidemus, had made a present of shields, they were crowned.
that, whereas Charidemus, dispatched to Salamis in command of the infantry, and Diotimus, commanding the cavalry, when in the battle at the river some of the soldiers had been disarmed by the enemy, did at their own expense arm the younger men with eight hundred shields, it be resolved by the Council and People to crown Charidemus and Diotimus with a golden crown, and to proclaim it at the great P …
On the Estate of Dicaeogenes
One of the two arbitrators nominated by the speaker's side in the private arbitration, willing to state his judgment with or without an oath.
The two whom I had proposed, Diotimus and Melanopus, expressed their readiness, with or without an oath, to declare what they regarded as the truth in the statements;
Meditations
Named figure appearing both as one who buried another and as a mourner at Hadrian's bier.
Or Chabrias or Diotimus beside that of Hadrian?
Epitynchanus buried Diotimus, then Epitynchanus.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Son of Strombichus; one of three commanders of the first Athenian squadron of ten ships sent to Corcyra.
Tile commanders of them were Lacedaemonius, the son of Cimon, Diotimus, the son of Strombichus, and Proteas, the son of Epiclees.