Diomedes, King of Aetolia Tydeus his soune, who with the residue of the Grecians went to Troy, and there so manfullie behaued himselfe, that next to Achilles and Aiar he was counted the most valiant. For beswe that he slue in battayle sundrie famous kings, and fought hand to hãd with Hecto, and with Aeneas, he woÛded the God Mars, and the Goddesse Venus, comming to rescue hir sonne, wherewith shec taking great displeasure, incensed his wife Aegiala with so outragious lecherie, that she made hir selfe common too all yong men that would effer hir dishonestie. For shame wherof Diomedcs after the war ended woulde not returne home into his countrey, but sayled into the part of Italie called Apulia, where one Daunus gaue him the one halfe of hys kingdome, An other Diomedes was king of Thrace, which feeding his horses with mens flesh, was afterward by Hercules cast to them to be deuoured.Dion Syracusanus, A noble mans sonne of Sicilie called Hipparious, brother to Aristomacha wife to the elder Dionyse. Wherfore he was long tyme in fauour with him in so much that Dionyse commanded his officers, that they should giue to Dion al that he would aske. Rcade this Dions life and actes in Plutarch.Dion Prusieus, A Philosopher surnamed Chrysostomus, who vsed to abroade being cladde wyth a Lyonsskin. Traian the Empctor vsed him familiarlie, with whom he most cõmonly aboade. He wrote in defence of Homere against Plato foure bookes, and other things besides.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Dĭŏmēdes, is, m., = *diomh/dhs. I.A son of Tydeus, king of Aetolia, and Deipyle, the successor of Adrastus in Argos; a famous hero at the siege of Troy, after which he went to Apulia, where he founded Argyripa (Arpi), Ov. M. 13, 100 sq.; 14, 457; Verg. A. 1, 752; 8, 9; Hor. S. 1, 5, 92; id. A. P. 146 et saep.—As grandson of Oeneus called Oenides, Ov. M. 14, 512: Diomedis Campus, the region about Cannae in Apulia, on the Aufidus, Liv. 25, 10; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 75 Müll.—Deriv., Dĭŏmēdēus (-īus), a, um, adj., of Diomedes: enses, Ov. M. 15, 806: furtum, i. e.
the rape of the Trojan Palladium
, Stat. Silv. 5, 3, 179; called also, ausa, Claud. VI. Cons. Honor. 479: agri, i. e.
Aetolian
, Mart. 13, 93; on the contrary, arces,
the cities founded by Diomedes in Italy
, Stat. Silv. 3, 3, 163.—So too Diomedea (insula), an island or group of islands in the Adriatic, on the coast of Apulia, now St. Domenico, St. Nicola, and Caprara, Mel. 2, 7, 13; Plin. 3, 26, 30, 151; cf.: Diomedis insula, id. 12, 1, 3, 6; Paul. ex Fest. p. 75 Müll.—Hence, the birds of that place (acc. to the fable of the metamorphosed companions of Diomedes) are called Diomedeae aves, Plin. 10, 44, 61, 126; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 11, 271; Isid. Orig. 12, 7, 28.—II.A king of the Bistones in Thrace, who gave his captives to be eaten by his horses; overcome at last by Hercules, Serv. Verg. A. 8, 300; 1, 752.—Hence, Diomedei equi, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2 praef. 12; Aus. Idyll. 19, 9; cf. Claud. in Rufin. 1, 254.