A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Ζήνων), literary.

1. An historical writer, mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (7.35) as the author of a narrative of the expedition of Pyrrhus into Italy, and a brief history of the (first) Punic war (Ἡ Πύρρου στρατεία εἰς Ἰταλίαν καὶ Σικελίαν.--Ἐπιτομὴ τῶν πεπραγμένων Ῥωμαίοις τε καὶ Καρχηδονίοις). Zenon probably lived shortly after the first Punic war. (Voss. de Hist. Gr. p. 141.)