DIACRII, in Antiquity, was the name of a party or faction at Athens. That city was divided into two parties; the one of which favoured an oligarchy, and the other consisted of such as were for a democratical or popular
government, in which the whole people should have a share. The first were called diacri, and the latter pe-diaci; because the one inhabited the lower, and the other the axos or upper part of the city. The laws of Solon imported, that Peisistratus should be the chief of the diacri; though the scholiast on Aristophanes's comedy of The Wasps affirms that Pandion distributed the quarter of the diacri among his sons, and put Lycus at their head.