Dino
(
Δείνων and
Δίνων). The
father of the historian
Clitarchus (q.v.), and
himself the author of a history of Persia, frequently referred to by the ancient
writers—e. g. Nepos (
Con. 5), Plutarch (
Alex. 36, et saep.), Aelian (
H. A. xvii. 10), and
Diogenes Laertius (i. 8). He flourished about 275 B.C. Only fragments of his history survive.