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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.

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