Philinus of Agrigentum

Philinus of Agrigentum (3rd-century BCE), Magna Graecia, was a historian who lived during the First Punic War, who is said to have written history from a pro-Carthaginian standpoint. His writings were used as a source by Polybius and Diodorus for their descriptions of the First Punic War. Polybius was unable to find this treaty in the treasury of the aediles in the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus alongside other treaties between Rome and Carthage, and claimed that it could not have existed. There is, as yet, little scholarly consensus about this treaty nor has Philinus' account been thoroughly proven or disproven.