Diegylis (

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

: Διήγυλις) was a chieftain of the Thracian

Caeni Kainoi ( el, Καινοί) or Caeni is the name of a Thracian tribe, mentioned by the Roman historian Livy. References See also *List of Thracian tribes This is a list of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia ( grc, Θρᾴκη, Δακία) includi ...

tribe and father of

Ziselmius Ziselmius, or Zibelmius or Zisemis (Ancient Greek: Ζισέλμιος) was a chieftain of the Thracian Caeni tribe and son of Diegylis. References See also *List of Thracian tribes This is a list of ancient tribes in Thrace and Dacia ( grc ...

. He is described by ancient sources (such as

Diodorus Siculus Diodorus Siculus, or Diodorus of Sicily ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος ; 1st century BC), was an ancient Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history ''Bibliotheca historica'', in forty books, fifteen of which su ...

) as extremely bloodthirsty.Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca historica'', XXXIII, 14.

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Thracian kings 2nd-century BC rulers in Europe {{AncientGreece-bio-stub