or DEI'MACHUS (ad Diog. Laert. 1.1)
endeavoured to prove, that the historian Ephorus had stolen whole passages from Daimachus's
work, since Ephorus lived and wrote before Daimachus. The latter wrote a work on India, which
consisted of at least two books. He had probably acquired or at least increased his knowledge
of those eastern countries during his embassy; but Strabo nevertheless places him at the head
of those who had circulated false and fabulous accounts about India. (Comp. s. v.
ad Apollon. Rhod.
1.558.) We have also mention of a very extensive work on sieges (s. v.
ad Hom. Il. 2.581.) The work on India is lost, but the one on sieges may possibly be
still concealed somewhere, for Magius (in Gruter's Fax Artium, p. 1330)
states, that he saw a MS. of it. It may be that our Daimachus is the same as the one quoted by
Plutarch (Comparat. Solon. cum Publ. 4) as an authority on the military
exploits of Solon. In another passage of Plutarch (