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{{Cquote|In fact, the fullest and most suggestive testimonium comes in the 10th-century lexicon, the Suda (δ 524):

{{Cquote|In fact, the fullest and most suggestive testimonium comes in the 10th-century lexicon, the Suda (δ 524):

Diagoras of Melos: he belongs to the atheists and disbelievers and impious. After the capture of Melos he resided in Athens. He disparaged the mysteries to the extent that he discouraged many from getting initiated. The Athenians therefore passed a decree against him, and inscribed on a bronze pillar a promise that anyone who killed him would receive a talent, and anyone who captured him two. This decree came about because of his impiety, since he revealed the mysteries to all, making them common property and belittling them, and putting off people who wanted to participate in them.

Diagoras of Melos: he belongs to the atheists and disbelievers and impious. After the capture of Melos he resided in [[Athens]]. He disparaged the mysteries to the extent that he discouraged many from getting initiated. The Athenians therefore passed a decree against him, and inscribed on a bronze pillar a promise that anyone who killed him would receive a talent, and anyone who captured him two. This decree came about because of his impiety, since he revealed the mysteries to all, making them common property and belittling them, and putting off people who wanted to participate in them.

In a separate entry (δ 523) the Suda claims that he wrote the ἀποπυργίζοντες λόγοι ‘as a retreat from and denial of belief in the gods’, after a plagiarist had gone unpunished by the gods.<ref>[http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018-08-36.html Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.08.36] on Diagoras of Melos</ref>}}

In a separate entry (δ 523) the Suda claims that he wrote the ἀποπυργίζοντες λόγοι ‘as a retreat from and denial of belief in the gods’, after a plagiarist had gone unpunished by the gods.<ref>[http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018-08-36.html Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018.08.36] on Diagoras of Melos</ref>}}