Diodotus
Διόδοτος
(Διόδοτος), a Greek physician, who is called by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 20.32) Petronius Diodotus, though it is not unlikely that (as Fabricius conjectures) we should read Petronius et Diodotus, as Petronius is distinguished from Diodotus by Dioscorides (De Mat. Med. praef. p. 2), and S. Epiphanius. (Adv. Haercs. 1.1. 3, p. 3, ed. Colon. 1682.) He must have lived some time in or before the first century after Christ, and wrote a work on botany.
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.