Philistus: i, m., = Φίλιστος,I a historian in Syracuse in the reign of the tyrant Dionysius, an imitator of Thucydides, Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 57; 2, 23, 94; id. Brut. 17, 66; id. Q. Fr. 2, 13, 4; Nep. Dion. 3, 2; Quint. 10, 1, 74.