Diphilus
Δίφιλος
(Δίφιλος).
1. The author of a poem entitled Θησηΐς, and of scurrilous poems in choliambics. (Schol. Pind. O. 10.83; Schol. Aristoph. Cl. 96.) From the latter passage it appears that he lived before Eupolis and Aristophanes. (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Graec. pp. 448, 449; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 434, ed. Westermann.)
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