Philistion
an engraver of medals, whose name occurs in two forms, ΦΛΙΣΤΩΝ (ἐποίει) and ΦΙΛΙΣΤΙΩΝΟΣ (ἔργον), in very small characters, but perfectly distinct, on the crest of the helmet of the head of Minerva, which forms the type of a great number of coins of Velia. (Raoul-Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 94, 2d ed.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.