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1136 TIMESITHEUS. TIMOCLES.
cratium at the Olympic and Pythian games, and according to which Lynceus avenged his brethren
was also distinguished as a brave soldier. He by slaying Danaus and his daughters (Jo. Malal.
was one of the partisans of the Athenian ISAGO- C/hron. iv. init.; Schol. Eurip. Hec. 869, Serv. ad
RAS, when he seized the Acropolis, with the help Virq. Aen. x. 497). The plan of the'EAE'rVs
of Cleomenes. The citadel was besieged by the a7rairso'Ls may be conjectured to have been borAthenians, and Timasitheus was one of those who rowed from Sophocles, and that of the'IiLowv from
fell into their hands, and were put to death. Pau- Euripides; shortly after whom, so far as any consanias mentions his statue at Olympia, the work of clusion can be drawn from the titles, Timesitheus
Ageladas, the Argive. (Herod. v. 72; Paus. vi. appears to have lived (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii.
8.) [E. E.] p. 325; Welcker, die Grechl. Trayid. pp. 1046TIMA'SIUS, FL., a distinguished general in 1048; Kayser, Hist. Crit. Trag. Graec. p. 327;
the reign of Theodosius I. He was appointed Wagner, Frag. Trag. Graec. pp. 144, 145, in
commander of the cavalry in A. D. 386, and of the Didot's Bibliotheca.) [P. S.]
infantry in 388, and he was made consul along TIME'SIUS. [TIMESIAS.]
with Promotus in 389. In 391 Timasius served TIMO (Tqm&u), one of the inferior priestesses in
under Theodosius in his campaign against the bar- the temple of Demeter at Paros, offered to betray
barians in Macedonia, and in 394 he was made Paros to Miltiades. (Herod. vi. 134.) [MILcommander of the Roman troops in the war against TIADES.]
Eugenius. After the death of Theodosius and the TIMO'CHARES, was the author of a work on
accession of Arcadius, Eutropius, who had un- Antiochus, which is cited by Eusebius (Praep. Ev.
bounded influence over the latter, resolved to ruin ix. 35, p. 265). Another writer of the same name
all persons of influence in the reign of the late is mentioned by the Scholiast on Aratus (Phaen.
emperor. Timasius was one of his first victims. 269).
He was accused of aspiring to the empire, and TIMO'CHARES, physician. [NIcIAS, No. 1.
banished to the Oasis in Africa in 396. (Zosim. iv. p. 1188.]
45, 57, v. 8, 9; Sozomen, viii. 7; Suidas, s. v.; TIMO'CHARIS (TLP4Xapts), a statuary of
Tillemont, Histoire des Empereurs, vol. v., and the Eleuthernae, in Crete, whose name occurs in an
authorities there quoted.) inscription, found at Astypalaea, as the maker of
TIME'SIAS (TsL7olfas) or TIME'SIUS (TL- a statue dedicated to Asclepius, by a certain Archi-;,7o10S, Herod.), of Clazomenae, was the first menidus, the son of Arithmius. The style of the
founder of the colony of Abdera in Thrace. He is letters of the inscription is that of the period of the
praised both by Plutarch and Aelian as a wise and Roman dominion in Greece. (Bickh, Corp. Invirtuous man. Eusebius places his colony in the scrip. Addend. vol. ii. p. 1098, No. 2491, b.; R.
31st 01., B.C. 656. Timesias was expelled by the Rochette, Lettre a M. Schorn, pp. 445, 446,
Thracians, but he was afterwards worshipped as a 2d ed.) His name also occurs in one of the inhero at Abdera by the Teians, who at a later time scriptions found by Ross, at Lindos in Rhodes, as
founded a second colony in that place. (Herod. i. the maker of a statue of Nicasidamus, priest of
168; Plut. Reip. ger. Praccepta, p. 812, a; Aelian. Athena Lindia (Rhiein. 1aus. 1846, vol. iv. p. 169),
V. H. xii. 9.) and again in another Rhodian inscription, also disTIME'SICLES. [MISITHEUS.] covered by Ross, as the maker of a dedicatory
TIMESI'THEUS (Tiuoqlo6eos), a tragic poet, statue of a certain Xenophantus. (Ross, Hellenika,
mentioned only by Suidas (s. v.) who gives us the pt. ii. p. 108.) [P. S.]
following titles of his plays:-Aava'ebs 13', "EKcTopos TIMOCLEIA (Tiu/tLtcXea), a woman of Thebes,
AOTpa,'HpaKAXji,'Itfwvz, Kayraveis, Mis'vov, at the capture of which by Alexander the Great,
Mv7lrr7pes, Z71vbs yoval,'EXe'vr &a7rar?')crls, in B. C, 335, her house was broken into and pilOpea'r's [Kcal] nlvXadqs, Kadcrwp Kai nloXAvsetcfr. laged by a body of Thracians in the Macedonian
In the last title but one, the iKal, which is not in the service. She was herself violated by their comtext of Suidas, should evidently be inserted, for-it mander, who then asked her whether she had not
cannot be supposed that'Opor71s and rIvuXdas gold or silver concealed somewhere. Answering
were two distinct plays, any more than Kdcorwp in the affirmative, she led him to a well in her
and IleoAv0,e6xs. Meineke proposes to unite also garden, where she pretended to have thrown her
two of the other titles, so as to make'E;Evr/s chief treasures when the city was taken, and,
uVY707lTpes a single play (Hist. Crit. Conz. Graec. while he was stooping to look, she pushed him in,
p. 391), but Welcker judiciously observes that and killed him. Hereupon she was brought by
the AEvir77)pes may refer to the suitors of Penelope the Thracians before Alexander, and exhibited so
quite as probably as to those of Helen, and that, high a spirit and so noble a bearing in the interin either case, the title is quite sufficient as it view, that the king ordered her to be set at liberty
stands, without robbing another play in order to with her children. (Plut. Alex. 12.) [E. E.]
improve it. Welcker has also remarked, and pro- TIMOCLES (Tt/JOKAXs). 1. A tragic poet of
bably with as much truth as ingenuity, that some uncertain date, who is distinguished from the comic
of the above titles seem to be those of satyric poet (No. 2) by Athenaeus (ix. p. 407, b.) in the
dramas; for the Zevbos yoai cannot possibly be a following words, TApo KXs 6 T'ijs KcowupoaLast 7roT777S,
tragedy, and'HpaKXhs, standing alone, without,v te Kal'rpaTyysgias, which Schweigh:iuser has unany epithet, indicates a satyric drama rather than accountably misunderstood, as if they implied the
a tragedy; and moreover, the Zrnvbs yoval and identity of the comic and the tragic poet, whereas
the'EXE/vns a&raLTrlr-s both stand out of the al- they mean " Timocles the comic poet, but there
phabetical order. The same scholar shows that was also a tragic" (poet of the same name). There
there is reason to think that the AavacLes was not is, however, no other mention of this poet; for,
founded on the corresponding play of Aeschylus, although a quotation from Sophocles in Plutarch
but contained a different version of the story, which (Timol. 36) is ascribed by some MSS. to Timocles,
had already been adopted by Archilochus, and it is so evident that the latter reading may have