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Daphitas

also: Daphita, Daphitae

A sophist (or grammarian) said to have mocked an oracle and then died by falling from a rock or horse called 'Horse.' Cicero (De Fato 5) ridicules Posidonius's reading of his death as a fulfilled fatal prophecy.

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