Sta'phylus
(
*Sta/fulos), of Naucratis, in Egypt, a Greek writer quoted by Strabo (
x. p.475), Pliny (
Plin. Nat. 5.31), and Athenaeus (ii. p. 45c.), as well as by the scholiasts, wrote a work on Thessaly (Schol.
ad Apoll. Rhod. 4.816 Harpocrat.
s. v. πενέσται; Schol.
ad Aristoph. Cl. 1064), on Aeolia and Attica (Harpocrat.
s. vv. ἐπίβοιον,
προναιͅα), and on Arcadia (Sext. Empir.
ad v. Math. 116).