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in impeaching Aeschines, on the score of malversa- room of Clearchus, and he and Xenophon, as the
tion in the embassy to Philip. Aeschines, how- youngest of the new leaders, were appointed to
ever, anticipated him, and brought him to trial command the rear-guard. When the Cyreans had
under a law of Solon, by which any one who had reached Cotyora, and were waiting there for the
been guilty of such flagrant excesses as Timarchus, transports which the Sinopian envoys had prowas forbidden to appear before the public assembly. mised them, Timasion and Thorax, a Boeotian,
There are different accounts as to the result of this took advantage of the report of Xenophon's protrial. According to some, Timarchus was con- ject for the establishment of a Greek colony on the
demned and disfranchised; according to others, he Euxine, to represent to some merchants of Sinope
put an end to his life even before the trial was and Heracleia that the only way to prevent it was
terminated. (Plut. Vit. X. Orat. Aesch.; Prooem. to furnish pay as well as ships to the army. The
ad Acscls. adv. Tim,.) Timarchus had previously two cities in question, on this being reported to
been impeached by Aristogeiton, and prevented them, not only engaged to do what was desired,
from being entrusted with a public commission. but even bribed Timasion to persuade the Greeks
(Suidas s. v.; Harpocr. s. v. AV'TOlIceixqs and to accept the terms, and to sail away home. AfEO'p-avspos; Tzetzes, Chilia(d. vi. 47, &c.; Aes- terwards, however, when they knew that Xenochines KaTa TqugCpXov, with Taylor's preface.) phon had abandoned his project, they would not
3. A favourite of Antiochus, the son of Antio- fulfil their promise of paying the soldiers, and Tichlus the Great, by whom he was appointed satrap masion accordingly and the other generals, who
of Babylon. He administered the affairs of his had been involved in the same intrigues with him,
province badly, and having made a stand against and had ventured to hold out to the men brilliant
Demetrius Soter, was overpowered and put to prospects of abundant funds, tried to persuade Xedeath by him. (Appian. Syr. 45, 47.) nophon to resume his design. He refused, how4. A tyrant of Miletus, who was overthrown ever, to bring the question at all before the army,
by Antiochus, the son of Antiochus Soter. The and they then attempted to gain over the officers
deliverance seems to have been a most welcome of their respective divisions, but a report of what
one, as the Milesians, in consequence of it, gave they were about spread among the troops, and
to Antiochus the surname Eeo's. (Appian. Syr. their indignant opposition defeated the plan.
65.) [C. P. M.] When the Cyreans separated into three divisions
TIMARCHUS (T/ueapXos), literary. 1. A at Heracleia, Timasion continued with the one
friend and disciple of Aristotle, left by him as one under Xenophon, and when it was advancing to
of the guardians of Nicanor. (Diog. Laert. v. 12.) rescue the Arcadians from the Bithynians, whose
2. A Greek grammarian, who lived in the reign country they had attempted to plunder, and who
of Ptolemaeus Euergetes. (Suid. s. v.'A7rohAX;zos.) had hemmed them round on a hill where they had
3. A Greek grammarian, of uncertain date. taken refuge, he was sent forward with the cavalry
Athenaeus (xi. p. 501) quotes from the fourth to reconnoitre; and shortly after we find him again
book of a work by him, 7repp'roD'Epaeroo'O&ovU commanding the cavalry in the battle in which the'EptzoD. He also wrote upon Homer (Schol. ad II. Greeks defeated the forces of Pharnabazus and the.p. 122), and on Euripides (Schol. ad Eurip. Med. Bithynians. On the discovery of the inability of
1). If the reading in Harpocration (s. v.'Apyas), COERATADAS to perform the promises by which
is correct, Timarchus was a native of Rhodes, and he had induced the Cyreans to elect him as their
was a writer on glosses. But as we find elsewhere leader, while the army was lying without the walls
mention of a Rhodian named Tiniachidas, who was of Byzantium, Timasion, in opposition to the other
a glossographer, some critics propose to alter the generals, wished to cross over again to Asia, in
reading in Harpocration. The reason is not a the hope of returning to his native city with the
very convincing one. (Vossius, de Hist. Gr. p. 143; treasures which we find he had collected in his
Ruhnken, Opuscula, p. 205.) [C. P. M.] expeditions. He entered with the rest of the army
TIMARCHUS, artist. [CEPH1soDo TUs, No. 2, into the service of Seuthes [SEUTHES, No. 2], and
p. 670.] took part in the hard winter campaign which reTIMARCHUS, CLAUIDIUS, of Crete, was established the Thracian prince in his kingdom;
accused in the senate in A. D. 62, on which oc- and when the disputes arose about the pay, which
casion Paetus Thrasea made a celebrated speech, Seuthes wished to evade, and Heracleides, the
the substance of which is given by Tacitus (Ann. instigator of the prince, endeavoured to cause disxv. 20). union among the generals, Timasion positively reTIMA'RETE (TmtapE&rT), a female painter, fused to act apart from Xenophon. He, no doubt,
the daughter of that Micon, whom Pliny distinl- crossed over to Asia with the army, when it enguishes from the celebrated painter Micon, by the tered into the Spartan service; and perhaps he
epithet of minor (H. N. xxxv. 9. s. 35). Pliny then took an early opportunity to return home to
also tells us that she painted a panel-picture of Dardanus. (Xen. Anab. iii. 1. ~ 47, 2. ~ 37, v. 6.
Diana, in a very ancient style of the art (anti- ~~ 19-37, vi. 1. ~ 32, 3. ~~ 14, 22, 5. ~ 28,
qutissimae picturae), which was preserved at Ephe- vii. 1. ~ 40, 2. ~~ 1, 2, 3. ~~ 18, 46, 5. ~~ 4,
sus. (H. V. xxxv. 11. s. 40. ~ 43.) [P. S.] 10.) [E. E.]
TIMA'SION (Tl/uaor,cv), a citizen of Darda- TIMASI'THEUS or TIMESI/THEUS (TLnus in the Troad, appears to have been a soldier laoL'IOeoS, Tuqe(rlOeos), a citizen of Trapezus, and
of fortune, and served in Asia under CLEARCHUS a proxenus of the Mossynoeci, between whom and
and DERCYLLIDAS. He was exiled from his na- the Cyrean Greeks he acted as interpreter, when
tive city,-at what period we do not know,-and the latter wished to make a treaty with the barwas one of those who entered the service of Cyrus barians, and to obtain a passage through their
the Younger. In the retreat of the 10,000, after country. (Xen. Anab. v. 4. ~~ 2, &c.) [E. E.]
the treacherous arrest of the five generals by Tis- TIMASI'THEUS (TlqarrLOeos), an athlete of
saphernes, Timasion was chosen commander in the Delphi, who conquered several times in the pan