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Daippus

(Δάϊππος), or DAHIPPUS, a statuary who made statues of athletes (Paus. 6.12.3, 16.4), and a statue which Pliny (34.8. s. 19.28) calls Perixyomenon, for which Brotier would read παραλυόμενον. He is mentioned in two other passages of Pliny (l.c. 19, 19.7), where all the MSS. give Laippus, through a confusion between Δ and Λ. From these two passages it appears that he was a son of Lysippus, and that he flourished in the 120th Olympiad. (B. C. 300, and onwards.)

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.