Diocleides
Διοκλείδης
(Διοκλείδης), of Abdera, is mentioned in Athenaeus (for this seems to be the meaning of the passage) as having admirably described the famous engine called Ἑλέπολις (the City-taker), which was made by Epimachus the Athenian for Demetrius Poliorcetes at the siege of Rhodes. (Ath. v. p. 206d.; Diod. 20.91; Wesseling, ad loc.; Plut. Demetr. 21; Vitr. 10.22.)
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.