A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

4. DALDINUS, was a native of Ephesus, but is usually called Daldianus (Δαλδιανός), to distinguish him from the geographer Artemidorus (Lucian, Philopatr. 22), since his mother was born at Daldia or Daldis, a small town in Lydia. Artemidorus himself also preferred the surname of Daldianus (Oneirocr. 3.66), which seems to have been a matter of pride with him, as the Daldian Apollo Mystes gave him the especial commission to write a work on dreams. (Oncirocr. 2.70.) He lived at Rome in the reign of Antoninus Pius and M. Aurelius, as we may infer from several passages of his work (1.28, 66, 4.1), though some writers have placed him in the reign of Constantine, and others identify him with the friend of Pliny the younger, and son-in-law of Musonius. (Plin. Ep. 3.11.) But the passages of Artemidorus's own work cited above, place the question beyond all doubt.