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Deimachus or Daimachus (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Lang-grc) was a Greek from Plataeae, who lived during the third-century BCE. He became an ambassador to the court of the Mauryan ruler Bindusara "Amitragatha" (son of Chandragupta Maurya) in Pataliputra in India.Template:Sfn Deimachus was sent by Antiochus I Soter.

As an ambassador, he was the successor to the famous ambassador and historian Megasthenes. Both of them were mentioned by Strabo.

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Deimachus apparently wrote extensively on India, and is quoted as a reference in geographical matters, although his works are now lost.

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Strabo, however, disputed these figures, and some of the fanciful accounts of both men, although they also brought extensive knowledge about India.

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