Daphnis
a Greek orator, of whom a fragment in a Latin version is preserved in Rutilius Lupus (de Fig. Sent. 15), and whose name Pithoeus wrongly altered into Daphnidius. No particulars are known about him. (Ruhnken, ad Rutil. Lup. p. 52, and Hist. Crit. Orat. Graec. p. 93.)
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.