D
Dadis (325 – 90 BCE)
Agronomist whose work was known to C D (V, RR 1.1.9–10; cf.
C, 1.1.11).
RE 4.2 (1901) 1978 (#2), M. Wellmann.
Philip Thibodeau
Daimakhos of Plataia (280 – 260 BCE)
Daimakhos served Antiokhos I as ambassador to the Mauryan king Bindusa ̄ra (ruled
297 – 272 BCE), and wrote an Indika, criticizing M, and dismissed by E-
(in S 2.1.19). He also authored a work on siege warfare (Poliorke ̄tika),
according to S B (s.v. Lakedaimo ̄n) and A M. (p. 5
W.), as well as one on piety (Peri Eusebias), of which the sole fragment (P, Lysander
12.6–7) attributes the fall of a meteorite to a comet (cf. A).
FGrHist 716; BNP 4 (2004) 40 (#2), K. Meister.
PTK and GLIM
Dalio ̄n (Geog.) (ca 325 – 275 BCE?)
Cited with B and A as a foreign authority on geography and ethnography
(P 1.ind.6), wrote an Aithiopika. Dalio ̄n, sailing beyond Meroë, was the first to estimate
the country’s dimensions (6.183) and described several peoples living along the southern
Nile, including the Vacathi, who used only rainwater (6.194). For the rare name see LGPN
1.112 (2nd/1st cc. BCE); compare Dalion and Dalo ̄n (LGPN), and perhaps Daïleo ̄n and
D.
FGrHist 666.
GLIM
Dalio ̄n (Med.) (350 BCE – 77 CE)
Greek physician, cited with “Damio ̄n” by P as a medical authority (1.ind.20–23) –
Damio ̄n alone is listed 1.ind.24–27. Wellman is confident that both names indicate the same
man and that Pliny, finding both versions in his sources, faithfully copied them into his
indices. Damio ̄n advises hyacinth bulbs mixed with honey-wine, and other remedies, to treat