), and more
complete
by which the orator Callimedon also was a member.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
A Trojan hero, son of Pegasus, was a friend DEINARCHUS (Acivapxos).
1.
The last
of Acneas, and slain by Agamemnon. (Hom. Il. and at the same time the least important among
v. 534. )
[L. S. ] the ten Attic orators, was born at Corinth about
DEIDAMEIA (Anžāduera). 1. A daughter of B. C. 361. (Dionys. Deinurch. 4. ) llis father's
Bellerophontes and wife of Erander, by whom name was Sostratus, or, according to Suidas (s. v.
she became the mother of Sarpedon. (Diod. v. 79. ) Seivapxos), Socrates. Though a native of Corinth,
Homer (Il. vi. 197) calls her Laodameia.
he lived at Athens from his early youth. Public
2. A daughter of Lycomedes in the island of oratory there reached its height about this time,
Scyrus. When Achilles was conccaled there in and Deinarchus devoted himself to the study of it
maiden's attire, Derdamcia became by him the with great zeal under the guidance of Theophrastus,
mother of Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, and, according though he also profited much by his intercourse
to others, of Oneirus also. (Apollod. iii. 13. $ 7; with Demetrius Phalereus. (Dionys. l. c. 2 ; Plut.
Prolem. Heph. 3. )
l'it. X Orat. p. 850; Phot. Bibl. p. 496, ed. Bek-
3. The wife of Peirithous, who is commonly ker; Suidas, l. c. ) As he was a foreigner, and
called Hippodameia. (Plut. Thes. 30 ; comp. Hip- did not possess the Athenian franchise, he was
L'ODA MEIA. )
[L. S. ] not allowed to come forward himself as an orator
DEIDAMEIA (Aniõduela). 1. Daughter of on the great questions which then divided public
Acacides, king of Epeirus, and sister of Pyrrhus. opinion at Athens, and he was therefore obliged
While yet a girl she was betrothed by her father to content himself with writing orations for others.
to Alexander, the son of Roxana, and having ac- He appears to have commenced this career in his
companied that prince and Olympias into Macedo- twenty-sixth year, about 1. c. 336, and as about
nichwas besieged in Pydna together with them. that time the great Attic orators died away one
(Plut. Pyrrh. 4 ; Diod. xix. 35; Justin, xiv. 6. ) after another, Deinarchus soon acquired consider-
After the death of Alexander and Roxana, she able reputation and great wealth. He belonged
was married to Demetrius Poliorcetes, at the time to the friends of Phocion and the Macedonian
when the latter was endeavouring to establish his party, and took a very active part in the disputes
power in Greece, and thus became a bond of union as to whether Harpalus, who had openly deserted
between him and Pyrrhus. (Plut. Demetr. 25, the cause of Alexander the Great, should be tole-
Pyrrh. 4. ) When Demetrius proceeded to Asia rated at Athens or not. The time of his greatest
to support his father against the confederate kings, activity is from B. c. 317 to B. C. 307, during
he left Derdameia at Athens; but after his defeat which time Demetrius Phalereus conducted the
at Ipsus, the Athenians sent her away to Megara, administration of Athens. But when in B. c. 307
though still treating her with regal honours. She Demetrius Poliorcetes advanced against Athens,
soon after repaired to Cilicia to join Demetrius, and Demetrius Phalereus was obliged to take to
who had just given his daughter Stratonice in flight, Deinarchus, who was suspected on account
marriage to Seleucus, but had not been there long of his equivocal political conduct, and who was
when she fell ill and died, B. C. 300. (Plut. anxious to save his riches, fled to Chalcis in Eu-
Demetr. 30, 32. ) She left one son by Demetrius, boea. It was not till fifteen years after, B. C. 29. 2,
named Alexander, who is said by Plutarch to have that, owing to the exertions of his friend Theo-
spent his life in Egypt, probably in an honourable phrastus, he obtained permission to return to
captivity. (Plut Demetr. 53. )
Athens, where he spent the last years of his life,
2. Daughter of Pyrrhus II. , king of Epeirus, and died at an advanced age. The last event of
after the death of her father and the murder of his life of which we have any record, is a law-suit
her uncle Prolemy, was the last surviving repre- which he instituted against his faithless friend,
sentative of the royal race of the Aeacidae. She Proxenus, who had robbed him of his property.
threw herself into Ambracia, but was induced by But in what manner the suit ended, is unknown.
the offer of an honourable capitulation to surrender. The principal source of information respecting the
The Epeirots, however, determining to secure their life of Deinarchus is the treatise of Dionysius of
liberty by extirpating the whole royal family, re- Halicarnassus, from which is derived the greater
solved to put her to death ; she fled for refuge to part of what is preserred in Plutarch (Vi. 8 Orat.
the temple of Artemis, but was murdered in the p. 850), Photius (Bill. p. 490, ed. Bekk), Suidas
sanctuary itself. (Polyaen. viii. 52 ; Justin, xxviii. (l. c. ), and others.
3, by whom she is erroneously called Laudamia ; The number of orations which Deinarchus wrote
Paus. iv. 35. $ 3. ) The date of this event cannot | is uncertain, for Demetrius of Magnesia (ap). Dio-
be accurately fixed, but it occurred during the nus. l. c. l; comp. Suidas and Eudoc. p. 130) as-
reign of Demetrius II. in Macedonia (B. C. 239—cribed to him one hundred and sixty, while Plu-
2:9), and probably in the early part of it. Schorn tarch and Photius speak only of sixty-four genuine
(Gesch. Griechenl. p. 86) supposes Deïdameia to be orations; and Dionysius is of opinion, that among
a daughter of the elder Pyrrhus, not the younger, the eighty-seven which were ascribed to him in
but this is certainly a mistake. [E. H. B. ] his time, only sixty were genuine productions of
DEIMA (Aciua), the personification of fear. Deinarchus. Of all these orations three only have
She was represented in the form of a fearful wo- come down to us entire, and all three refer to the
man, on the tomb of Medeia's children at Corinth. question about Harpalus. One is directed against
(Paus. ii. 3. $ 6. )
[L. S. ) Philocles, the second against Demosthenes, and
DEIMACHUS (Antuaxos), four mythical per- the third against Aristogeiton. It is, however,
sonages. (Apollod. i. 9. $ 9,7. $ 3; Apollon. Rhod. not improbable that the speech against Theocrines,
ii. 955, &c. ; Plut. Quaest. Gr. 41. ) [L. S. ] which is usually printed among those of Demos-
DEIMAS (Acluas), a son of Dardanus and thenes, is likewise a work of Deinarchus. (See
Chryse, who when bis family and a part of the pp. 1333 and 1336 of that oration ; Dionys. Hal.
Arcadian population emigrated, remained behind 1. c. 10; Liban. Argum. ; Harpocrat. s. v. åypapiov
in Arcadia. (Dion. Hal. i. 61. ) [L. S. ] and Deokpívns; Apostol. Proverb. xix. 49. ) The
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95)
DEINOCRATES.
:-
titles and fragments of the orations which are DEI'NIAS (Aervias). 1. One of a club of wits
Jost, are collected as far as can be by Fabricius at Athens (genwtofotol), called “the Sixty;" of
(Bill. Gr. ii. p. 864, de.
), and more complete by which the orator Callimedon also was a member.
Westermann. (Gesch. der griech. Beredtsumi. p. The date therefore may be placed about 1. c. 325.
311, &c. ) The ancients, such as Dionysius who (Athen. xiv. p. 614, e. ) He is perhaps the same
gives an accurate account of the oratory of Deinar- whom Demosthenes mentions as a skilful orator.
chus, and especially Hermogenes (de Form. Orat. (c. Lept. p. 501. )
ii. Il), speak in terms of bigh praise of his ora- 2. An author of uncertain date, who wrote an
tions; but there were others also who thought less historical work on Argolis. It is referred to by
favourably of him ; some grammarians would not the following writers :-Plut. Arat. 29; Schol. ad
even allow him a place in the canon of the ten Apoll. Rhod. ii. 791, ad Eur. Orest. 859, ad
Attic orators (Bibl. Coislin, p. 597), and Diony-Soph. Electr. 281, ad Tuocr. xiv. 48, ad Pind. 01.
sius mentions, that he was trcated with indiffer- vii. 49, Isthm. iv. 104. See also Meineke, llist.
ence by Callimachus and the grammarians of Per- Crit. Com. Gruec. p. 385. It is doubtful whether
gamus. However, some of the most eminent this Deinias should be identified with the author
grammarians, such as Didymus of Alexandria and of a work on the history of inventions mentioned
Heron of Athens, did noi disdain to write com- by Athenaeus (xi. p. 471, b. ; see Fabric. Bibl.
mentaries upon him. (Harpocrat. s. v. Maptuaciov; | Graec. vol. ii. p. 150).
[E. E. )
Suid. s. v. "Howv. ) The orations still extant ena- DEI'NIAS, is mentioned by Pliny among the
ble us to form an independent opinion upon the most ancient painters of monochromes. (xxxv. 6.
merits of Deinarchus; and we find that Dionysius's 5. 34. )
[P. S. ]
judgment is, on the whole, quite correct. Deinar- DEINOʻCHARES. (DEIXOCRATES. )
chus was a man of no originality of mind, and it is DEINOʻCRATES (AEivorpátis). 1. A Syracu-
difficult to say whether he had any oratorical talent san, was originally a friend of A gathocles, who on
or not. His want of genius led him to imitate others, that account spared his life in the massacre at Syra-
such as Lysias, Hyperides, and more especially cuse by which he established himself in the tyranny,
Demosthenes; but he was unable to come up to B. C. 317. Afterwards, however, in B. C. 312, we
his great model in any point, and was therefore find Deinocrates commanding the Syracusan exiles
nicknamed Δημοσθένης ο άγροικος or o κρίθινος. | in the war in which the Carthaginians supported
Even Hermogenes, his greatest admirer, does not them against Agathocles. The latter, when he
deny that his style had a certain roughness, whence fled from Africa and returned to Sicily at the end
his orations were thought to resemble those of of B. C. 307, found Deinocrates at the head of so
Aristogeiton. Although it cannot be denied that formidable an army, that he offered to abdicate
Deinarchus is the best among the many imitators the tyranny and restore the exiles, stipulating
of Demosthenes, he is far inferior to him in power only for the possession of two fortresses with the
and energy, in the choice of his expressions, in territory around them. But the ambition of Dei-
invention, clearness, and the arrangement of bis nocrates, who preferred his present power to the
Bubjects.
condition of a private citizen in Syracuse, led him
The orations of Deinarchus are contained in the to reject the ofier. Agathocles, however, defeated
various collections of the Attic orators by Aldus him in a battle, and he then submitted. He was
(1513), Stephanus (1575), Gruter (1619), Reiske, received into favour by the tyrant, who gave him
Ducas, Bekker, and Baiter and Sauppe. The best the command of a portion of his forces, and re-
separate edition is that of C. E. A. Schmidt (Leipzig, tained him in his confidence to the end. (Diod.
18:26, 8vo. ), with a selection of the notes of his xix. 8, 104, xx. 77, 79, 89, 90. )
predecessors, and some of his own. There is also 2. A Messenian, went to Rome in B. c. 183, to
a useful commentary on Deinarchus by C. Wurm, justify the revolt of Messene from the Achaeans.
“ Commentarius in Dinarchi Orationes tres," No On his arrival, his hopes were raised by finding that
rimbergae, 1828, 8vo. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. ii. p. 862, Flamininus, who was a personal friend of his and
&c. ; Westermann, Gesch. der griech. Beredtsamk. an enemy to Philopoemen, the Achaean leader, was
§ 73. )
about to pass into Greece on an embassy to Prusias
2. Of Corinth, a contemporary of the orator, and Seleucus. Flamininus promised him his services,
with whom he has frequently been confounded. and, when he had reached Naupactus, sent to
He was likewise a friend of Phocion, and when Philopoemen and the other magistrates, desiring
the latter was dragged to Athens for execution, them to call an assembly of the Achaeans. Philo-
Deinarchus too was put to death by the command poemen, however, was aware that Flamininus had
of Polysperchon. (Plut. Phoc. 33. ) As this person not come with any instructions on the subject from
is not mentioned elsewhere, the name Deinarchus the senate, and he therefore answered, that he
in Plutarch may be a mistake.
would comply with his request if he would first
3. There were three authors of the name of state the points on which he wished to confer with
Deinarchus, concerning whom we know little be- the assembly: This he did not venture to do, and
yond what is stated by Demetrius of Magnesia the hopes of Deinocrates accordingly fell to the
(Dionys. Deinarch. 1), viz. that one was a poet of ground. Shortly after this, Philopoemen was
Delos, who lived previous to the time of the taken prisoner by the Messenians, and Deinocrates
orator, and wrote poems on Bacchic subjects (comp. was prominent among those who caused him to be
Euseb. Chron, Dccxx. ; Cyrill. c. Julian. x. p. put to death. In the ensuing year the authors of
341); the second, a Cretan, made a collection of the revolt were obliged to yield to the wishes of
Cretan legends; and the third wrote a work upon the Messenian people for peace, and Lycortas, the
Homer. Whether any of these is the same as the Achaean general
, baving been admitted into the
one who, according to Nemesins (de Natur. Hom. / city, commanded the execution of Deinocrates and
4), taught, with Aristoxenus, that the human soul the chiefs of his party; but Deinocrates anticipated
was nothing but a harnony, is uncertain. [L. S. ] ! the sentence by suicide. His qualifications as a
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952
DEINOMACHUS.
DEINOSTRATUS.
statesman werc, according to Polybius, of the most DEINO'MENES (Acivouévms). 1. Father of
superficial character. In political foresight, for in- Gelon, Hiero, and Thrasybulus, succesively tyrants
btince, he was utterly deficient. (Polyb. xxiv. 5, of Syracuse. (Herod. vii. 145; Pind. Pyth. i.
12 ; Liv. xxxix. 49; Plut. Philop. 18—21, Flam. | 154, ii. 34. )
20; Paus. iv. 29. )
[E. E. ) 2. One of the guards of Hieronymus, king of
DEINOCRATES (Aeivokpátos), a most dis- Syracuse, in the plot against whose life he joined.
tinguished Macedonian architect in the time of When llieronymus had marched into Leontini,
Alexander the Great. He was the architect of the and had arrived opposite the house where the
new temple of Artemis at Ephesus, which was built murderers were posted, Deinomenes, who was close
after the destruction of the former temple by Hero- behind him, stopped under pretence of extricating
stratus. (CHERSIHron. ) He was employed by his foot from a knot which confined it, and thus
Alexander, whom he accompanied into Egypt, in the checked the advance of the multitude, and separated
building of Alexandria. Deinocrates laid out the the king from his guards. The assassins then
ground and erected several of the principal buildings. rushed on Hieronymus and slew him. (1. c. 215. )
Besides the works which he actually crected, he llis attendants turned their weapons against Dei-
formed a design for cutting mount Athos into a nomenes, but he escaped with a few wounds, and
blatue of Alexander, to whom he presented his was soon after elected by the Syracusans one of
plan upon his accession to the throne; but the their generals. (Liv. xxiv. 7, 23. ) [E. E.
of Acneas, and slain by Agamemnon. (Hom. Il. and at the same time the least important among
v. 534. )
[L. S. ] the ten Attic orators, was born at Corinth about
DEIDAMEIA (Anžāduera). 1. A daughter of B. C. 361. (Dionys. Deinurch. 4. ) llis father's
Bellerophontes and wife of Erander, by whom name was Sostratus, or, according to Suidas (s. v.
she became the mother of Sarpedon. (Diod. v. 79. ) Seivapxos), Socrates. Though a native of Corinth,
Homer (Il. vi. 197) calls her Laodameia.
he lived at Athens from his early youth. Public
2. A daughter of Lycomedes in the island of oratory there reached its height about this time,
Scyrus. When Achilles was conccaled there in and Deinarchus devoted himself to the study of it
maiden's attire, Derdamcia became by him the with great zeal under the guidance of Theophrastus,
mother of Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, and, according though he also profited much by his intercourse
to others, of Oneirus also. (Apollod. iii. 13. $ 7; with Demetrius Phalereus. (Dionys. l. c. 2 ; Plut.
Prolem. Heph. 3. )
l'it. X Orat. p. 850; Phot. Bibl. p. 496, ed. Bek-
3. The wife of Peirithous, who is commonly ker; Suidas, l. c. ) As he was a foreigner, and
called Hippodameia. (Plut. Thes. 30 ; comp. Hip- did not possess the Athenian franchise, he was
L'ODA MEIA. )
[L. S. ] not allowed to come forward himself as an orator
DEIDAMEIA (Aniõduela). 1. Daughter of on the great questions which then divided public
Acacides, king of Epeirus, and sister of Pyrrhus. opinion at Athens, and he was therefore obliged
While yet a girl she was betrothed by her father to content himself with writing orations for others.
to Alexander, the son of Roxana, and having ac- He appears to have commenced this career in his
companied that prince and Olympias into Macedo- twenty-sixth year, about 1. c. 336, and as about
nichwas besieged in Pydna together with them. that time the great Attic orators died away one
(Plut. Pyrrh. 4 ; Diod. xix. 35; Justin, xiv. 6. ) after another, Deinarchus soon acquired consider-
After the death of Alexander and Roxana, she able reputation and great wealth. He belonged
was married to Demetrius Poliorcetes, at the time to the friends of Phocion and the Macedonian
when the latter was endeavouring to establish his party, and took a very active part in the disputes
power in Greece, and thus became a bond of union as to whether Harpalus, who had openly deserted
between him and Pyrrhus. (Plut. Demetr. 25, the cause of Alexander the Great, should be tole-
Pyrrh. 4. ) When Demetrius proceeded to Asia rated at Athens or not. The time of his greatest
to support his father against the confederate kings, activity is from B. c. 317 to B. C. 307, during
he left Derdameia at Athens; but after his defeat which time Demetrius Phalereus conducted the
at Ipsus, the Athenians sent her away to Megara, administration of Athens. But when in B. c. 307
though still treating her with regal honours. She Demetrius Poliorcetes advanced against Athens,
soon after repaired to Cilicia to join Demetrius, and Demetrius Phalereus was obliged to take to
who had just given his daughter Stratonice in flight, Deinarchus, who was suspected on account
marriage to Seleucus, but had not been there long of his equivocal political conduct, and who was
when she fell ill and died, B. C. 300. (Plut. anxious to save his riches, fled to Chalcis in Eu-
Demetr. 30, 32. ) She left one son by Demetrius, boea. It was not till fifteen years after, B. C. 29. 2,
named Alexander, who is said by Plutarch to have that, owing to the exertions of his friend Theo-
spent his life in Egypt, probably in an honourable phrastus, he obtained permission to return to
captivity. (Plut Demetr. 53. )
Athens, where he spent the last years of his life,
2. Daughter of Pyrrhus II. , king of Epeirus, and died at an advanced age. The last event of
after the death of her father and the murder of his life of which we have any record, is a law-suit
her uncle Prolemy, was the last surviving repre- which he instituted against his faithless friend,
sentative of the royal race of the Aeacidae. She Proxenus, who had robbed him of his property.
threw herself into Ambracia, but was induced by But in what manner the suit ended, is unknown.
the offer of an honourable capitulation to surrender. The principal source of information respecting the
The Epeirots, however, determining to secure their life of Deinarchus is the treatise of Dionysius of
liberty by extirpating the whole royal family, re- Halicarnassus, from which is derived the greater
solved to put her to death ; she fled for refuge to part of what is preserred in Plutarch (Vi. 8 Orat.
the temple of Artemis, but was murdered in the p. 850), Photius (Bill. p. 490, ed. Bekk), Suidas
sanctuary itself. (Polyaen. viii. 52 ; Justin, xxviii. (l. c. ), and others.
3, by whom she is erroneously called Laudamia ; The number of orations which Deinarchus wrote
Paus. iv. 35. $ 3. ) The date of this event cannot | is uncertain, for Demetrius of Magnesia (ap). Dio-
be accurately fixed, but it occurred during the nus. l. c. l; comp. Suidas and Eudoc. p. 130) as-
reign of Demetrius II. in Macedonia (B. C. 239—cribed to him one hundred and sixty, while Plu-
2:9), and probably in the early part of it. Schorn tarch and Photius speak only of sixty-four genuine
(Gesch. Griechenl. p. 86) supposes Deïdameia to be orations; and Dionysius is of opinion, that among
a daughter of the elder Pyrrhus, not the younger, the eighty-seven which were ascribed to him in
but this is certainly a mistake. [E. H. B. ] his time, only sixty were genuine productions of
DEIMA (Aciua), the personification of fear. Deinarchus. Of all these orations three only have
She was represented in the form of a fearful wo- come down to us entire, and all three refer to the
man, on the tomb of Medeia's children at Corinth. question about Harpalus. One is directed against
(Paus. ii. 3. $ 6. )
[L. S. ) Philocles, the second against Demosthenes, and
DEIMACHUS (Antuaxos), four mythical per- the third against Aristogeiton. It is, however,
sonages. (Apollod. i. 9. $ 9,7. $ 3; Apollon. Rhod. not improbable that the speech against Theocrines,
ii. 955, &c. ; Plut. Quaest. Gr. 41. ) [L. S. ] which is usually printed among those of Demos-
DEIMAS (Acluas), a son of Dardanus and thenes, is likewise a work of Deinarchus. (See
Chryse, who when bis family and a part of the pp. 1333 and 1336 of that oration ; Dionys. Hal.
Arcadian population emigrated, remained behind 1. c. 10; Liban. Argum. ; Harpocrat. s. v. åypapiov
in Arcadia. (Dion. Hal. i. 61. ) [L. S. ] and Deokpívns; Apostol. Proverb. xix. 49. ) The
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95)
DEINOCRATES.
:-
titles and fragments of the orations which are DEI'NIAS (Aervias). 1. One of a club of wits
Jost, are collected as far as can be by Fabricius at Athens (genwtofotol), called “the Sixty;" of
(Bill. Gr. ii. p. 864, de.
), and more complete by which the orator Callimedon also was a member.
Westermann. (Gesch. der griech. Beredtsumi. p. The date therefore may be placed about 1. c. 325.
311, &c. ) The ancients, such as Dionysius who (Athen. xiv. p. 614, e. ) He is perhaps the same
gives an accurate account of the oratory of Deinar- whom Demosthenes mentions as a skilful orator.
chus, and especially Hermogenes (de Form. Orat. (c. Lept. p. 501. )
ii. Il), speak in terms of bigh praise of his ora- 2. An author of uncertain date, who wrote an
tions; but there were others also who thought less historical work on Argolis. It is referred to by
favourably of him ; some grammarians would not the following writers :-Plut. Arat. 29; Schol. ad
even allow him a place in the canon of the ten Apoll. Rhod. ii. 791, ad Eur. Orest. 859, ad
Attic orators (Bibl. Coislin, p. 597), and Diony-Soph. Electr. 281, ad Tuocr. xiv. 48, ad Pind. 01.
sius mentions, that he was trcated with indiffer- vii. 49, Isthm. iv. 104. See also Meineke, llist.
ence by Callimachus and the grammarians of Per- Crit. Com. Gruec. p. 385. It is doubtful whether
gamus. However, some of the most eminent this Deinias should be identified with the author
grammarians, such as Didymus of Alexandria and of a work on the history of inventions mentioned
Heron of Athens, did noi disdain to write com- by Athenaeus (xi. p. 471, b. ; see Fabric. Bibl.
mentaries upon him. (Harpocrat. s. v. Maptuaciov; | Graec. vol. ii. p. 150).
[E. E. )
Suid. s. v. "Howv. ) The orations still extant ena- DEI'NIAS, is mentioned by Pliny among the
ble us to form an independent opinion upon the most ancient painters of monochromes. (xxxv. 6.
merits of Deinarchus; and we find that Dionysius's 5. 34. )
[P. S. ]
judgment is, on the whole, quite correct. Deinar- DEINOʻCHARES. (DEIXOCRATES. )
chus was a man of no originality of mind, and it is DEINOʻCRATES (AEivorpátis). 1. A Syracu-
difficult to say whether he had any oratorical talent san, was originally a friend of A gathocles, who on
or not. His want of genius led him to imitate others, that account spared his life in the massacre at Syra-
such as Lysias, Hyperides, and more especially cuse by which he established himself in the tyranny,
Demosthenes; but he was unable to come up to B. C. 317. Afterwards, however, in B. C. 312, we
his great model in any point, and was therefore find Deinocrates commanding the Syracusan exiles
nicknamed Δημοσθένης ο άγροικος or o κρίθινος. | in the war in which the Carthaginians supported
Even Hermogenes, his greatest admirer, does not them against Agathocles. The latter, when he
deny that his style had a certain roughness, whence fled from Africa and returned to Sicily at the end
his orations were thought to resemble those of of B. C. 307, found Deinocrates at the head of so
Aristogeiton. Although it cannot be denied that formidable an army, that he offered to abdicate
Deinarchus is the best among the many imitators the tyranny and restore the exiles, stipulating
of Demosthenes, he is far inferior to him in power only for the possession of two fortresses with the
and energy, in the choice of his expressions, in territory around them. But the ambition of Dei-
invention, clearness, and the arrangement of bis nocrates, who preferred his present power to the
Bubjects.
condition of a private citizen in Syracuse, led him
The orations of Deinarchus are contained in the to reject the ofier. Agathocles, however, defeated
various collections of the Attic orators by Aldus him in a battle, and he then submitted. He was
(1513), Stephanus (1575), Gruter (1619), Reiske, received into favour by the tyrant, who gave him
Ducas, Bekker, and Baiter and Sauppe. The best the command of a portion of his forces, and re-
separate edition is that of C. E. A. Schmidt (Leipzig, tained him in his confidence to the end. (Diod.
18:26, 8vo. ), with a selection of the notes of his xix. 8, 104, xx. 77, 79, 89, 90. )
predecessors, and some of his own. There is also 2. A Messenian, went to Rome in B. c. 183, to
a useful commentary on Deinarchus by C. Wurm, justify the revolt of Messene from the Achaeans.
“ Commentarius in Dinarchi Orationes tres," No On his arrival, his hopes were raised by finding that
rimbergae, 1828, 8vo. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. ii. p. 862, Flamininus, who was a personal friend of his and
&c. ; Westermann, Gesch. der griech. Beredtsamk. an enemy to Philopoemen, the Achaean leader, was
§ 73. )
about to pass into Greece on an embassy to Prusias
2. Of Corinth, a contemporary of the orator, and Seleucus. Flamininus promised him his services,
with whom he has frequently been confounded. and, when he had reached Naupactus, sent to
He was likewise a friend of Phocion, and when Philopoemen and the other magistrates, desiring
the latter was dragged to Athens for execution, them to call an assembly of the Achaeans. Philo-
Deinarchus too was put to death by the command poemen, however, was aware that Flamininus had
of Polysperchon. (Plut. Phoc. 33. ) As this person not come with any instructions on the subject from
is not mentioned elsewhere, the name Deinarchus the senate, and he therefore answered, that he
in Plutarch may be a mistake.
would comply with his request if he would first
3. There were three authors of the name of state the points on which he wished to confer with
Deinarchus, concerning whom we know little be- the assembly: This he did not venture to do, and
yond what is stated by Demetrius of Magnesia the hopes of Deinocrates accordingly fell to the
(Dionys. Deinarch. 1), viz. that one was a poet of ground. Shortly after this, Philopoemen was
Delos, who lived previous to the time of the taken prisoner by the Messenians, and Deinocrates
orator, and wrote poems on Bacchic subjects (comp. was prominent among those who caused him to be
Euseb. Chron, Dccxx. ; Cyrill. c. Julian. x. p. put to death. In the ensuing year the authors of
341); the second, a Cretan, made a collection of the revolt were obliged to yield to the wishes of
Cretan legends; and the third wrote a work upon the Messenian people for peace, and Lycortas, the
Homer. Whether any of these is the same as the Achaean general
, baving been admitted into the
one who, according to Nemesins (de Natur. Hom. / city, commanded the execution of Deinocrates and
4), taught, with Aristoxenus, that the human soul the chiefs of his party; but Deinocrates anticipated
was nothing but a harnony, is uncertain. [L. S. ] ! the sentence by suicide. His qualifications as a
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DEINOMACHUS.
DEINOSTRATUS.
statesman werc, according to Polybius, of the most DEINO'MENES (Acivouévms). 1. Father of
superficial character. In political foresight, for in- Gelon, Hiero, and Thrasybulus, succesively tyrants
btince, he was utterly deficient. (Polyb. xxiv. 5, of Syracuse. (Herod. vii. 145; Pind. Pyth. i.
12 ; Liv. xxxix. 49; Plut. Philop. 18—21, Flam. | 154, ii. 34. )
20; Paus. iv. 29. )
[E. E. ) 2. One of the guards of Hieronymus, king of
DEINOCRATES (Aeivokpátos), a most dis- Syracuse, in the plot against whose life he joined.
tinguished Macedonian architect in the time of When llieronymus had marched into Leontini,
Alexander the Great. He was the architect of the and had arrived opposite the house where the
new temple of Artemis at Ephesus, which was built murderers were posted, Deinomenes, who was close
after the destruction of the former temple by Hero- behind him, stopped under pretence of extricating
stratus. (CHERSIHron. ) He was employed by his foot from a knot which confined it, and thus
Alexander, whom he accompanied into Egypt, in the checked the advance of the multitude, and separated
building of Alexandria. Deinocrates laid out the the king from his guards. The assassins then
ground and erected several of the principal buildings. rushed on Hieronymus and slew him. (1. c. 215. )
Besides the works which he actually crected, he llis attendants turned their weapons against Dei-
formed a design for cutting mount Athos into a nomenes, but he escaped with a few wounds, and
blatue of Alexander, to whom he presented his was soon after elected by the Syracusans one of
plan upon his accession to the throne; but the their generals. (Liv. xxiv. 7, 23. ) [E. E.
