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Tryphon

2. The physician introduced by Plutarch as one of the speakers in his Symposiaca (3.1.2, 3; 2.1, 2), if he was a real personage, lived in the first century after Christ.

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.