Career
He was a man of good family and an acute philologer (Diog Laërt v 84). He was the author of a very extensive work which is very often referred to, and bore the title Τρωικὸς διάκοσμος. lieutenant consisted of at least twenty-six books (Strab xiii p 603 and passim.
Athen iii pp 80, 91.
Steph Byz sv Σιλίνδιον). This work was an historical and geographical commentary on that part of the second book of the Iliad in which the forces of the Trojans are enumerated, known as the Trojan Battle Order or Trojan Catalogue (compare Harpocrat s vv Ἀδράστειον, Θυργωνίδαι. Schol ad Apollon Rhod i 1123, 1165).
He is sometimes simply called the Scepsian (Strab ix pp 438, 439, x pp 456, 472, 473, 489), and sometimes simply Demetrius (Strab xii pp 551, 552, xiii pp 596, 600, 602).
The numerous other passages in which Demetrius of Scepsis is mentioned or quoted, are collected by Westermann on Vossius, De History. Graec., p. 179, &c.