Philistus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Sicilian historian cited as imitator of Thucydides.
" Whence Thucydides too in the Histories says, "Most men are wont, when unlooked-for prosperity comes to them suddenly and at the least cost, to turn to insolence.
Orations
Historian and statesman entrusted with Syracuse by Dionysius the Younger.
and, by Zeus, if a man should be entrusted by a king or a tyrant with gold or silver, or ships, or arms, or a citadel, or the whole empire—as Leptines often received Syracuse from his brother, and Philistus from the younger Dionysius, and the Magi the royal palace of the Persians from Cambyses, when he was on campaign in Egypt, and Mithranes the citadel of Sardis from Darius, and Persaeus the Acro …