Demophĭlus
(
Δημόφιλος).
1.
An Athenian poet of the New Comedy, from whose
Ὀναγός
Plautus took his
Asinaria.
2.
A Pythagorean philosopher who wrote a work called
Βίου
Θεράπεια, of which a selection is extant under the name of
Γνωμικὰ Ὁμοιώματα, which has been edited by Orelli
(Leipzig,
1819). Of the life of Demophilus no particulars are known.