Phi'ntias
(
*Finta/as).
1. A Pythagorean, the friend of Damon, who was condemned to die by Dionysius the elder.
The well-known anecdote of their friendship, and the effect produced by it onl the tyrant, has been already related under DAMON. Valerius Maximus writes the name Pythias; but Cicero follows the Greek authors in adopting the form Phintias.