Philinus

Phili'nus

(Φιλῖνος).

1. A Greek of Agrigentum, accompanied Hannibal in his campaigns against Rome. and wrote a history of the Punic wars, in which he exhibited, says Polybius, as much partiality towards Carthage, as Fabius did towards Rome. His hatred against Rome may have been excited, as Niebulr has remarked (Hist. of Rome, vol. iii. p. 573), by the unfortunate fate of his native town, which was stormed by the Romans in the first Punic war. How far the history of Philinus came down is uncertain; he is usually called by most modern writers the historian of the first Punic war; but we have the express testimony of Cornelius Nepos (Annib. 13) that he also gave an account of the campaigns of Hannibal; and we may therefore conclude that his work contained the history of the second as well as of the first Punic war. (Corn. Nep. l.c. ; Plb. 1.14, 3.26; Diod. 23.8, 24.2, 3.) To this Philinus Müller (Fragm. Hist. Graec. p. xlviii.) assigns a work Περὶ Φοινίκης, which Suidas (s. v. Φιλίσκος ἢ Φίλιστος) erroneously ascribes to Philistus.

Phili'nus

2. An Attic orator, a contemporary of Demosthenes and Lycurgus. He is mentioned by Demosthenes in his oration against Meidias (p. 566), who calls him the son of Nicostratus, and says that he was trierarch with him. Harpocration mentions three orations of Philinus. 1. Πρὸς Αἰσχύλου καὶ Σοφοκλέους καὶ Εὐριπίδου εἰκόνας, which was against a proposition of Lycurgus that statues should be erected to those poets (s. v. θεωρικά). 2. Κατὰ Δωροθέου, which was ascribed likewise to Hyperides (s. v. ἐπὶ κόρρης). 3. Κροκωνιδῶν διαδικασία πρὸς Κοιρωνίδας, which was ascribed by others to Lycurgus (s. v. Κοιρωνίδαι ; comp. Athen. 10.425b; Bekker, Anecd. Graec. vol. i. p. 73. 5). An ancient grammarian, quoted by Clemens Alexandrinus (Strom. vi. p. 748), says that Philinus borrowed from Demosthenes. (Ruhnken, Historia Oratorumn Graecorum, p. 75, &c.; Westermann, Geschichte der Griechischen Beredtsamkeit, § 54, n. 29.)

Phili'nus

(Φιλῖνος), a Greek physician, born in the island of Cos, the reputed founder of the sect of the Empirici (Cramer's Anecd. Graeca Paris. vol. i. p. 395), of whose characteristic doctrines a short account is given in the Dict. of Antiq. s. v. Empirici. He was a pupil of Herophilus, a contemporary of Baccheius [Baccheius], and a predecessor of Serapion, and therefore probably lived in the third century B. C. (Pseudo-Galen, Introd. 100.4, vol. xiv. p. 683). He wrote a work on part of the Hippocratic collection directed against Baccheius (Erot. Lex. Hippocr. in v. Ἄμβην), and also one on botany (Athen. xv. pp. 681, 682), neither of which is now extant. It is perhaps this latter work that is quoted by Athenaeus (15.28. pp. 681, 682), Pliny (Plin. Nat. 20.91, and Index to books xx. and xxi.), and Andromachus (ap. Galen, De Compos Medicam. sec. Loc, 7.6, De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 5.13, vol. xiii. pp. 11 :. 842). A parallel has been drawn between Philinus and the late Dr. Hahnemann in a dissertation by F. F. Brisken, entitled Philinus et Hahnemannus, seu veteris Sectae Empiricae cum Hodierna Secta Homoeopathica Comparatio, Berol. 1834, 8vo. [W.A.G]

Philīnus

(Φιλῖνος). (1) An Attic orator, the contemporary of Demosthenes and Lycurgus.

(2) A Greek physician, the reputed founder of the Empirical School of medicine, in the third century B.C. See medicina.

Philinus Philinus, a Coan

• son of Hegepolis, Olympic victor: Paus. 6.17.2