Diphilus (physician)

Diphilus, (Greek: Δίφιλος), a Greek physician of Siphnus, one of the Cyclades, who was a contemporary of Lysimachus, king of Thrace, about the beginning of the 3rd century BC.^[1] He wrote a work entitled, On Diet fit for Persons in good and bad Health,^[2] which is frequently quoted by Athenaeus, but of which nothing remains but the short fragments preserved by him.^[3]

Notes

1. Athenaeus, ii. p. 51
2. Athenaeus, iii. p. 82
3. Athenaeus, ii. p. 51, 54, 55, 56, etc.

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