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Headword: *fili/skos
Adler number: phi,361
Translated headword: Philiskos, Philiscus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

Or Philistos,[1] Syracusan, historian. He was a relative of Dionysios the tyrant of Sicily[2] and he died in the sea-battle against the Carthaginians.[3] A pupil of Euenos the elegiac poet.[4] He wrote a History of Sicily; it is an account of their memorable achievements against the Greeks; also a Genealogy, Concerning Phoenicia, etc.; [and] Concerning the Island of Sicily.

Greek Original:

*fili/skos h)\ *fi/listos, *surakou/sios, i(storiko/s. h)=n de\ suggenh\s *dionusi/ou tou= tura/nnou *sikeli/as kai\ e)n th=| pro\s *karxhdoni/ous naumaxi/a| e)teleu/thse. maqhth\s de\ h)=n *eu)h/nou tou= e)legeiopoiou=. e)/graye *sikelika/: e)/sti de\ ta\ pro\s *(/ellhnas au)toi=s praxqe/nta diafo/rws: kai\ *genealogi/an, *peri\ *foini/khs, kai\ a)/lla tina/: *peri\ th=s nh/sou *sikeli/as.

Notes:

c.430-356 BCE. See also phi 365, and generally OCD4 Philistus; FGrH 556.
[1] Indeed so: see phi 365.
[2] On whom see generally delta 1178, and cf. delta 1179.
[3] An error, as Bernhardy pointed out, for 'Syracusans'.
[4] See generally epsilon 3476.

Keywords: biography; geography; historiography; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 April 2003@10:07:08.
Vetted by:

Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 16 January 2004@01:27:49.
David Whitehead (corrected a date) on 28 April 2011@10:10:28.
David Whitehead on 9 August 2011@06:13:19.
David Whitehead on 6 April 2014@06:58:20.
David Whitehead on 7 August 2014@02:57:23.

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