Demophilus
Dēmŏphĭlus, i, m., Δημόφιλος,
- a Greek comic poet, Plaut. As. prol. 10.
Dēmophilus, ī, m. (Δημόφιλος), ein Dichter der neuern attischen Komödie, nach dessen Stücke ὀναγός Plautus seine Asinaria bearbeitete, Plaut. asin. prol. 10 sqq.
Dēmŏphĭlus, (16) ī, m. (Δημόφιλος), nom dʼun poète athénien : Pl. As. 10.
Demophilus
[Damophilus.]
Demo'philus
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.)
Demo'philus
2. An architect of little note, wrote Praecepta Symmetriarum. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. § 14.) See also Damophilus. [P.S]
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.
Demophilus
Demophilus
- commanding Thespian force at Thermopylae: Hdt. 7.222