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Dromocleides

Δρομοκλείδης

(Δρομοκλείδης) of Sphettus, at Attic orator of the time of Demetrius Phalereus, who exercised a great influence upon public affairs at Athens by his servile flattery of Demetrius Poliorcetes. (Plut. Demetr. 13, 14, Praecept. Polit. p. 798.)

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.