Dicaearchus (d.196 BC) was an Aetolian commander and pirate. [...] Dicaearchus had a tradition in which where ever he landed he would built two temples, one to Asebeia which means impiety and another to Paranomia which means Lawlessness.
(Wikipedia entry for Dicaearchus of Aetolia)
Aristomenes caused Scopas and his family to be put to death by poison; but did not allow Dicaearchus to die until he had had him racked and scourged, thus inflicting on him a punishment which he thoroughly deserved in the name of all Greece. For this was the Dicaearchus whom Philip, when he resolved upon his treacherous attack on the Cyclades and the cities of the Hellespont, appointed leader of the whole fleet and the entire enterprise: who being thus sent out to perform an act of flagrant wickedness, not only thought that he was doing nothing wrong, but in the extravagance of his infatuation imagined that he would strike terror into the gods as well as man. For wherever he anchored he used to build two altars, to Impiety and Lawlessness, and, offering sacrifice upon these altars, worshipped them as his gods.
(Polybius: Histories)
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