person
Philistus of Syracuse
Philistus
also: Philistum, Philisto
Sicilian Greek historian (c. 430-356 BC) and partisan of the Syracusan tyrants Dionysius I and II; author of a history of Sicily admired by Cicero as a compact Thucydides. In Q.fr 2.11 Cicero praises his close, sharp, brief style.