diadochi

1. pluralplural onlyAlternative letter-case form of Diadochi.

   The diadochi not only continued to propagate the typological portrait of Alexander, they also commissioned such portraits themselves.

   1982, Bernard Frischer, The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece, University of California Press, page 271

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   To be sure, one would have expected some wrangling about the diadochi, perhaps even a hard confrontation between party bosses and military leaders, but beerhall battles and street fighting, as in the days of the Weimar Republic, were scarcely to be expected.

   1993, Alexander Demandt, translated by Colin D. Thompson, History that Never Happened: A Treatise on the Question, what Would Have Happened If...?, McFarland, page 108

   If you were to follow the wars of the diadochi, Alexander’s generals, after the death of Alexander the great, then the northern kingdom later becomes Syria only.

   2011, Z. Richard Sawan, M. D., Revelation and the Mark of the Beast, Author Press, page 119

alternative diadochi

1. pluralplural onlyhistoryThe rival generals of Alexander the Great who fought for control over his empire after his death in 323 BCE.