Di'philus
(
*Di/filos).
1. A physician of Siphnus, one of the Cyclades, who was a contemporary of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, about the beginning of the third century B. C. (Athen.ii.p. 51.)
He wrote a work entitled,
Περὶ τῶν Προσφερομένων τοῖς Νοσοῦσι καὶ τοῖς Ῥγιαίνουσι, " On Diet fit for Persons in good and bad Health" (
Ath. 3.24. p. 82), which is frequently quoted by Athenaeus, but of which nothing remains but the short fragments preserved by him. (ii. pp. 51,54,55,56, &c.)