PHILO, a native of Byblos, in Syria, is believed by Vossius to have been born in the tenth year of the reign of Tiberius, A. D. 24, and to have lived to the times of the Emperor Hadrian, who succeeded to the empire A. D. 117. He gained considerable reputation as a writer both of history and grammar; but his name has come down to us chiefly as the translator of a history which Sanchoniathon had written in the Phœnician language. Eusebius has preserved several fragments of the preface of Philo, and also of this history. This fragment has called forth the ingenuity of many modern writers, but more particularly of Mr Dodwell, who has written a very learned dissertation on the subject. Fourmont also makes it the text of a work which he entitled Réflexions Critiques sur les Histoires des anciens Peuples, two vols. 4to.