Damagetus
(Δαμάγητος).
1. King of Ialysus 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. [Aristomenes.] The following is their genealogy.
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 Pausanias.
2. Of the second Damagetus nothing is known but his name.
3. The third Damagetus was victor in the pancratium on the same day on which his brother Acusilaus was victor in boxing. [Diagoras.] (Pind. O. 7, and Schol; Paus. 4.24.1, 6.7. §§ 1, 2; Aelian, Ael. VH 10.1; Cic. Tasc. 1.46; Clinton, Fast. Hell. i. pp. 254, 255.) [P.S]
(Δαμάγητος), the author of thirteen epigrams in the Greek Anthology, from the contents of some of which his time is fixed at the end of the third century B. C. He was included in the Garland of Meleager. It is not known whether he is the same person as the Demagetus who is cited by Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. Ἀκτή). The name is also given by the Scholiast to Apollonius Rhodius (1.224) in the form Demagetus. (Brunck, Anal. 2.38, 3.311; Jacobs, Anthol. Graec. 2.39, 13.879, 880; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. iv. p. 470.) [P.S]
- marries daughter of Aristomenes: Paus. 4.24.2
- buries Aristomenes: Paus. 4.24.3
- a Rhodian, Olympic victor: Paus. 6.7.1, 3
- Paus. 4.24.3