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]

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•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:  Greenhill, William Alexander (1870). "Diphilus". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.