Diotimus
(Διότιμος).
1. Agrammarian of Adramyttium in Mysia, exercised the profession of a teacher at Gargara in the Troad--a hard lot, which Aratus, who appears to have been contemporary with him, bemoans in an extant epigram. He is probably the same whose voluminous common-place book (παντοδαπὰ ἀναγνώσματα) is quoted by Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v. Πασσαργάδαι). Schneider would refer to him the epigrams under the name of Diotimus in the Anthology. See below. (Anthol. i. p. 253; Jacobs, ad loc.; Macr. 5.20; Steph. Byz. s. v. Γάργαρα; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 561, iv. p. 473.)
2. An Athenian, who wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The period at which he lived is not known. He is quoted, together with Aristus of Salamis, by Athenaeus (x. p. 436e.).
3. The author of a Greek poem, called Ἡρακλεία, in hexameter verse, on the labours of Hercules. Three verses of it are preserved by Suidas (s. v. Εὐρύβατος), and by Michael Apostolius, the Byzantine, in his collection of proverbs. (Jacobs, Anthol. vol. xiii. p. 888; see Athen. 13.603d.)
4. Of Olympia, an author or collector of riddles (γρῖφοι), is mentioned by one of the interlocutors in the Deipnosophistae of Athenaeus (x. p. 448c.) as ὁ ἑταῖρος ἡμῶν, and lived therefore at the beginning of the third century of our era.
5. A Stoic philosopher, who is said to have accused Epicurus of profligacy, and to have forged fifty letters, professing to have been written by Epicurus, to prove it. (Diog. Laet. 10.3; Menag. ad loc.) According to Athenaeus, who is evidently alluding to the same story in a passage where Δεότιμος apparently should be substituted for Θεότιμος, he was convicted of the forgery, at the suit of Zeno the Epicurean, and put to death. (Ath. xiii. p. 611b.) We learn from Clement of Alexandria (Strom. 2.21), that he considered happiness or well-being (εὐεστώ) to consist, not in any one good, but in the perfect accumulation of blessings (παντέλεια τῶν ἀγαθῶν), which looks like a departure from strict Stoicism to the more sober view of Aristotle. (Eth. Nicom. 1.7, 8.) [E.E]
(Διότιμος). Under this name there are several epigrams in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal. 1.250; Jacobs, 1.183), which seem, however, to be the productions of different authors, for the first epigram is entitled Διοτίμου μιλησίου, and the eighth Διοτίμον Ἀθηναίου τοῦ Διοπείθους. This latter person would seem to be the same as the Athenian orator, Diotimus, who was one of the ten orators given up to Antipater. (Suid. s. u. Ἀντίπατρος; Pseudo-Plut. Vit. X Orat. p. 845a.) How many of the epigrams belong to this Diotimus, and to whom the rest ought to be assigned, is quite uncertain. Schneider refers them to the grammarian Diotimus, of Adramyttium. The epigrams under the name of Diotimus were included in the Garland of Meleager. (Jacobs, 13.888.) [P.S]
(Διότιμος), a physician of Thebes, whose absurd and superstitious remedies are quoted by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 28.23), and who must, therefore, have lived in or before the first century after Christ. [W.A.G]
- Paus. 6.14.5