Diotrephes

Διοτρέφης, (Thuc. 8.64), was sent, B. C. 411, by the oligarchical revolutionists in the Athenian army at Samos, to take charge of the subject states in the neighbourhood of Thrace, and took the first step in pursuance of their policy towards the allies by establishing oligarchy at Thasos. Nicostratus, the general who fell at Mantineia, was son of a Diotrephes (Thuc. 4.119) : this therefore perhaps was a Diotrephes, son of Nicostratus. If so, it is an additional reason for thinking him distinct from Diitrephes, the destroyer of Mycalessus. [Diitrephes.] [A.H.C]

(Διοτρέφης), a rhetorician of high repute in his day (σοφιστὴς ἒνδοξος), born at Antioch on the Maeander. Hybreas, who was contemporary with Strabo, was his pupil. (Strab. xiii. p.630, xiv. p. 659.) [E.E]