Philistus, i, m., = Φίλιστος,
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.