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n. - Friend of Damon.

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  • As a test of their friendship Dionysius falsely accused Phintias of plotting against him and sentenced him to death.
  • Phintias asked time to set his affairs in order, and Dionysius was amazed when Damon took his place, while he did so.
  • Aristoxenus is a source for the famous story of the two Pythagorean friends Damon and Phintias, which was set during the tyranny of Dionysius II in Syracuse (367-357).
  • In Diodorus 'version, Phintias is presented as actually engaged in a plot against Dionysus and some argue that Aristoxenus' version is an attempt to whitewash the...
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