Antiphanes
Ἀντιφάνης
(Ἀντιφάνης), a PHYSICIAN of Delos, who is quoted by Caelius Aurelianus (De Morb. Chron. 4.8, p. 537), and Galen (De Compos. Medicam. sec. Locos, 5.5, vol. xii. p. 877), and must therefore have lived some time in or before the second century after Christ. He is mentioned by St. Clement of Alexandria (Paedag. 2.1, p. 140) as having said, that the sole cause of diseases in man was the too great variety of his food.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.