Demophilus

• a Greek comic poet, Plaut. As. prol. 10.

[Damophilus.]

artists.

1. Of Himera, a painter, who flourished about B. C. 424, was said by some to have been the teacher of Zeuxis. (Plin. Nat. 35.9. s. 36.2; Zeutxi.)

2. An architect of little note, wrote Praecepta Symmetriarum. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. § 14.) See also Damophilus. [P.S]

(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.

• commanding Thespian force at Thermopylae: Hdt. 7.222