A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(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.)