Di'ocles
5. Of PEPARETHUS, the earliest Greek historian, who wrote about the foundation of Rome, and whom Q. Fabius Pictor is said to have followed in a great many points. (
Plut. Rom. 3,
8; Fest.
s. v. Romam.) How long he lived before the time of Fabius Pictor, is unknown. Whether he is the same as the author of a work on heroes (
περὶ ἡρώων σύνταγμα), which is mentioned by Plutarch (
Quaest. Graec. 40), and of a history of Persia (
Περσικά), which is quoted by Josephus (
Ant. Jud. 10.11.1), is likewise uncertain, and it may be that the last two works belong to Diocles of Rhodes, whose work on Aetolia (
Αἰτωλικά) is referred to by Plutarch. (
De Flum. 22.)