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Theodotus

Θεόδοτος

(Θεόδοτος), literary.

1. A disciple of Socrates, who, in his Defence, according to Plato, speaks of him as already dead. He was the son of Theosdotides, and the brother of Nicostratus. (Plat. Apol. p. 33e.)

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.