A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

1110 THRASYLLUS. THRASYMACHUS.
of his fellow-citizens and a proxenus of Lacedae- same year, and in B. c. 407 he led home to Athens a
mon), obtained an interview with Agis, and in- portion of the triumphant armament. Not long after,
duced him by the hope of a permanent peace to he was one of the generals who were appointed to
grant them a truce for four months. Thrasyllus supersede Alcibiades after the battle of Notium,
and Alciphron, however, had taken this step with- and was present in that capacity at Arginusae in
out being authorized; and the Argives, who ima- n. c. 406. After the battle it was he who proposed
gined that they had been on the point of gaining to leave 47 galleys behind to save the men fron
an easy victory over the Lacedaemonians, shut in the wrecks, while the main body of the fleet should
as the latter were between them and the city, were sail against the ships of the enemy, which were
highly exasperated, and began to stone Thrasyllus blockading Mytilene. He was also among the six
in the military court which was always held just generals who returned to Athens and were shameoutside the walls of Argos after an expedition. He fully put to death by the people through the insaved his life only by taking refuge at an altar, trigues of Theramenes. It should beobserved that
and he was punished by the confiscation of his Diodorus, in his account of several of the above
property. (Thuc. v. 59, 60.) events, substitutes, by an error, the name of Thra2. An Athenian, was serving as a hoplite in the sybulus for that of Thrasyllus. (Thuc. viii. 73, 75,
army at Samos, in B. C. 411, and was one of those 76, 104, 105; Xen. Hell. i. 1. ~~ 8, 33, 34, 2. ~~
who persuaded the soldiers and sailors to aid the 1-17, 3. ~~ 4, &c., 14, &c., 4. ~ 10, 5. ~ 16,
Samian people against the expected attempt of the 6. ~ 30, 7. ~~ 2, 29, 34; Plat. Tl/eag. p. 129;
oligarchical conspirators to put down democracy in Plut. Ale. 29-31; Died. xiii. 64, 66, 74, 101,
the island. The consequence was the defeat of the 102; Palm. and Wess. ad Diod. xiii. 74.) [E. E.]
revolutionists. Shortly after, when CHAEREAshad THRASYLLUS (Op~caovAAos), a musician of
brought to Samos an exaggerated account of the Phlius, is mentioned by Plutarch (dle ilbns. 21, p.
tyranny and violence of the 400 at Athens, Thra- 1137, f.), in connection with Tyrtaeus of Mantisyllus and Thrasybulus bound the army by an neia and Andreas of Corinth, as having purposely
oath to be faithful to democracy, zealous in the abstained from many of the artificial refinements
war with the Peloponnesians, and ever hostile to which were introduced at an early period into
the revolutionary government at home; and, in the Greek music. From the way in which he is menelection of new generals which ensued, these two tioned by Plutarch, he seems to have lived in the
were included in the number. In the same year, early part of the fifth century B. C. [P. S.]
B. c. 411, Thrasyllus commanded the left wing of THRASYLLUS, was a celebrated astrologer
the fleet at the battle of Cynossema, in which the at Rhodes, with whom Tiberius became acquainted
Athenians defeated the Peloponnesians; and some- during his residence in that island, and ever afterwhat later, after the victory gained by the Athe- wards held in the highest honour. It was said
nians over the Lacedaemonian fleet near Abydus, that Tiberius had intended to kill him after conhe was despatched to Athens to bear the good suiting him respecting his future destinies; but
news and to ask for supplies. Some time after his that Thrasyllus, when he had predicted the empire
arrival, Agis having, in a foray from Deceleia, ad- to Tiberius, said that he perceived from the obvanced too near the walls of the city, Thrasyllus servation of the stars that his own death was near
led out the Athenians against him and obtained a at hand, by which announcement he so convinced
slight advantage, in consequence of which his Tiberius of the truth of his art, that Tiberius not
countrymen the more readily voted him a rein- only gave up his intention of murdering him, but
forcement both of men and ships. With these he admitted him to his intimate friendship. Thrasyllus
sailed early in B. c. 409 to Samos, whence he pro- accompanied Tiberius to Rome, when he was
ceeded to the coast of Asia and attacked the town recalled by Augustus, and appears to have always
of Pygela without success. Within a few days, lived with him. He died in A. D. 36, the year
however, Colophon surrendered to him, and he before Tiberius, and is said to have saved the lives
then advanced into Lydia, and having ravaged the of many persons whom Tiberius would otherwise
country, proceeded by sea against Ephesus, but have put to death by falsely predicting for this
here he was defeated and driven back to his ships very purpose that the emperor would live ten years
by the forces of the Ephesians, united with those longer. (Tac. Azzn. vi. 20-22; Dion Cass. lv
of Tissaphernes and the Syracusans; and after 11, lvii. 15, lviii. 27; Suet. Azg. 98, Tib. 14, 62,
sailing to Notium where he buried his dead, Cal. 19; Schol. ad Juv. vi. 576; Julian. Ep. ad
he steered his course for Lesbos. Here, while Thlemist. p. 265, Spanh.) The son of this Thrasyllus
anchoring at Methymna, he observed the Syra- succeeded to his father's skill, and is said to have
cusan squadron sailing by, whereupon he attacked predicted the empire to Nero. (Tac. Ann. vi. 22,
it, captured four ships with their crews, and chased comp. xiv. 9; Dion Cass. lxi. 2.)
the rest back to Ephesus. He then continued his THRASY'MACHUS (OparbiuaXoe), a native
voyage to Sestus, where he joined the force under of Chalcedon, was a sophist, and one of the earliest
Alcibiades, and the whole fleet crossed over together cultivators of the art of rhetoric. He was a conto Lampsacus; but the troops of Alcibiades, who temporary of Gorgias. (Cic. Oral. 12, 13, 52;
had not sustained any defeat, refused to serve in Quintil. iii. 1. ~ 10.) He is introduced by
the same ranks with those of Thrasyllus, conquered Plato as one of the interlocutors in the Politeia,
as they hlad been at Ephesus; nor was this feeling and is referred to several times in the Phaedrus.
removed till their common success in the ensuing Like Prodicus and Protagoras, he discoursed and
winter against Pharnabazus near Abydus. In wrote on suljects of natural philosophy (Cic. de
B. c. 408 Thrasyllus was engaged with Alcibiades Orat. iii. 32. ~ 128); Plutarch (Synzp. p. 616, d.)
in the successful operations at Chalcedon, which mentions a work by him on Illustrious MAen
induced Pharnabazus to accept terms of accommo- ('Trrepga'dAAores). Quintilian speaks of him as
elation from the Athenians. He probably shared one of the first who wrote on commeson.places
alio in the siege and reduction of Byzantium in the (probably in the Lpopoal`Prroptai mentioned by