Φιλίσκος
Philiskos, Philiscus
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Translation
Or Philistos,1 Syracusan, historian. He was a relative of Dionysios the tyrant of Sicily2 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 · Adler’s text
Φιλίσκος ἢ Φίλιστος, Συρακούσιος, ἱστορικός. ἦν δὲ συγγενὴς Διονυσίου τοῦ τυράννου Σικελίας καὶ ἐν τῇ πρὸς Καρχηδονίους ναυμαχίᾳ ἐτελεύτησε. μαθητὴς δὲ ἦν Εὐήνου τοῦ ἐλεγειοποιοῦ. ἔγραψε Σικελικά· ἔστι δὲ τὰ πρὸς Ἕλληνας αὐτοῖς πραχθέντα διαφόρως· καὶ Γενεαλογίαν, Περὶ Φοινίκης, καὶ ἄλλα τινά· Περὶ τῆς νήσου Σικελίας.
Betacode
*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 (4)
- c.430-356 BCE. See also phi 365, and generally OCD4 Philistus; FGrH 556.
- 1Indeed so: see phi 365. ↩
- 2On whom see generally delta 1178, and cf. delta 1179. ↩
- 3An error, as Bernhardy pointed out, for 'Syracusans'. ↩
- 4See generally epsilon 3476. ↩
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