Diocles

Pour in and say again, "Diocles"; nor does Acheloüs touch the cups consecrated to him; fair is the boy, O Acheloüs, exceeding fair; and if any one says no, let me be alone in my judgment of beauty.

Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902

Diocles, from the province of Lusitania in what is now Portugal and south-west Spain, had a nomadic career, starting at 18 with the Whites, before moving on for a brief stint with great rivals the Greens.

Diocles the Roman charioteer runs rings round Usain Bolt's £21m deal Luke Gosset 2010

Twenty-four years of winnings brought Diocles—likely an illiterate man whose signature move was the strong final dash—the staggering sum of 35,863,120 sesterces in prize money.

the world’s richest athlete was a charioteer | clusterflock 2010

Probably illiterate, Diocles made a whopping 35,863,120 sesterces in prize money alone, an estimated $15bn in today's money.

Diocles the Roman charioteer runs rings round Usain Bolt's £21m deal Luke Gosset 2010

Nullum simplex medicamentum sine noxa, no simple medicine is without hurt or offence; and although Hippocrates, Erasistratus, Diocles of old, in the infancy of this art, were content with ordinary simples: yet now, saith

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Triptolemus and Diocles, the horse-driver, and to doughty Eumolpus and Celeus, leader of the people, she showed the conduct of her rites and taught them all her mysteries, to Triptolemus and

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Polyxeinus and Diocles also, — awful mysteries which no one may in any way transgress or pry into or utter, for deep awe of the gods checks the voice.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

Diocles supposed the ground of this kind of melancholy to proceed from the inflammation of the pylorus, which is the nether mouth of the ventricle.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Diocles, and many others in the same way — beginning as their lover he has ended by making them pay their addresses to him.

The Symposium 2006

Diogenes Laertius reports, evidently on the authority of Aristoxenus, that the last Pythagoreans were Xenophilus from the Thracian Chalcidice (Aristoxenus 'teacher), and four Pythagoreans from Phlius: Phanton, Echecrates, Diocles and Polymnastus.

Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006