Diocles
From LSJ
Ἀναβάντα γὰρ εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν, καὶ διὰ τὴν ὑπερβολὴν τῆς λύπης προσκόψαντα τῷ ζῆν, ἑαυτὸν κατακρημνίσαι → For he ascended the acropolis and then, because he was disgusted with life by reason of his excessive grief, cast himself down the height
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
Dĭŏclēs,¹⁴ is, m. (Διοκλῆς), nom d’un médecin grec : Plin. 1, 20 || nom de Dioclétien avant son élévation : Ps. Aur. Vict. Epit. 39.
Wikipedia EN
Diocles (Διοκλῆς) may refer to:
- Diocles (mathematician) (c. 240 BC – c. 180 BC), Greek mathematician and geometer
- Diocles (mythology), one of the first priests of Demeter
- Diocles of Carystus, also known as Diocles Medicus, 4th century BC Greek physician
- Diocles of Cnidus, 3rd or 2nd Century BCE . Greek philosopher who wrote a work quoted by Eusebius
- Diocles of Corinth, winner of the stadion race of the 13th Olympic Games in 728 BC
- Diocles of Magnesia, 2nd or 1st Century BCE . Greek writer on ancient philosophers quoted many times by Diogenes Laertius
- Diocles of Messenia, winner of the stadion race of the 7th Olympic Games in 752 BC
- Diocles of Peparethus, Greek historian in the 3rd century BC
- Diocles of Phlius, (fl. c. 400 BC) a comic poet
- Diocles of Syracuse (fl. 413–408 BC), Greek lawgiver in the city-state of Syracuse
- Diocletian (244–311), Roman emperor formerly named Diocles
- Gaius Appuleius Diocles, Roman charioteer
- Diocles (laser), a powerful laser at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
