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Διοκλῆς

(Διοκλῆς), the son of Orsilochus and father of Crethon and Orsilochus, was a king of Phere. (Hom. Il. 5.540, &c., Od. 3.488; Paus. 3.30.2.)

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.