Likewise in Herodian and, according to Adler, the
Ambrosian Lexicon; and note also
delta 1481, which has the more common spelling with omega as first vowel.
However the name is spelled, there is no way of knowing which individual has prompted these entries. Some examples:
- OCD(4) s.v. no.1, the Hellenistic astronomer D. of Pelusium, dedicatee of several books by
Archimedes
- OCD(4) s.v. no.2 (and Bibliography below), D. 'Magister', author of a Latin grammatical handbook in the (?)late fourth century CE
- an historian of indeterminable date (FGrH 54 and 290)
- a 'priest and Levite' in
Esther 10.3.L
LXX
- one of the correspondents of
Epicurus
- D. (a.k.a. Nathaniel) the Samaritan and Gnostic, reputedly the teacher of
Simon Magus
- St Dositheos of Gaza, a monk of the sixth century CE
- an object of erotic love in
Greek Anthology 12.130