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1. A half-fanatic, half-impostor, who made at Athens an apparently thriving trade of
oracles. He was much satirized by the comic poets, and may perhaps be identified with the
Locrian juggler mentioned in Athenaeus. (i. p. 20a.) If so, he must be distinguished from the
Diopeithes of whom we read in Suidas as the author of a law which made it a capital offence
for an inhabitant of the city to spend the night in the Peiraeus, and who was brought to trial
for an involuntary breach of his own enactment. (Vesp. 380, Av. 988; Schol. ad ll. cc.; Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. i. p. 154, ii.
pp. 364, 583, 704; Suid. s vv.