Daiphantus
Δαΐφαντος
(Δαΐφαντος), a Theban, who was slain at the battle of Mantineia, B. C. 362. It is said that Epaminondas, after he had received his mortal wound, asked successively for Daiphantus and Iolaidas, and, when he heard of their death, advised his countrymen to make peace. (Plut. Apophth. Epam. 24; Ael. VH 12.3.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.