Philinus (/fɪˈlaɪnəs/; Greek: Φιλῖνος; lived during the 4th century BC) was an Athenian orator, a contemporary of Demosthenes and Lycurgus.^[1] He is mentioned by Demosthenes in his oration against Meidias,^[2] who calls him the son of Nicostratus, and says that he was trierarch with him. Harpocration mentions three orations of Philinus. These are Against the statues of Sophocles and Euripides,^[3] which was against a proposition of Lycurgus that statues should be erected to those poets;^[1] Against Dorotheus,^[4] which was ascribed likewise to Hyperides;^[1] Judiciary litigation of the Croconidae against the Coeronidae, which was ascribed by others to Lycurgus.^[5] An ancient grammarian, quoted by Clement of Alexandria^[6], says that Philinus borrowed from Demosthenes.^[1]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Philinus 2.". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.