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

TIMOSTRATUS. TIMOTHEUS. 1145
said to have died in consequence of refusing to whose Atluo7ro7rTos is quoted by Suidas (s. v.
suffer a surgeon to come to him to set a broken Xdpao) is an error for Ttlto'r'pa'ros. (Meineke,
limb. His grave is said to have been planted with 2t;ag. Corn. Graec. vol. i. pp. 499, 500, vol. iv.
thorns, and the following epitaph upon him is pre- pp. 595, 596; Editio Minor, p. 1184.) [P. S.]
served in the Greek Anthology (Brunck, Anal. vol. TIMO'THEUS (TqI4dOeos), historical. 1. Father
i. p. 153; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. i. p. 86):- of Conon, the famous general. (Paus. viii. 52.)'EvOc7 airo3ppSas 4x@,3,apvaL1Ucova Kice7sa, of2. Son of Conon, was a native of the denius
TovvoiAua 8' o 7rE6SEOae, KaiKo se KaKi's a7nAoL01e. of Anaphlystus, and, according to a probable conljecture of Boeckh, belonged to the priestly family
The few details recorded of his eccentricities by of the Enmolpidae (Corp. Inscr. 393; see Rehthe authors above cited have no value except as dantz, Vit. Iph. Chabr. Tim. p. 45). For the statecontributing to the study of his whole character, ment of Athenaeus (xiii. p. 577, a), that his mnoas one type of the diseased human mind, a subject ther was a Thracian hetaera, there appear to be
which lies beyond our present limits, but for which no good grounds. Inheriting a considerable fortune
the reader will find ample materials in comparing from his father, he seems in his early years to
the ancient authorities with Shakspeare's Timon of have indulged in the display of it, as we may
Athens, and in this comparison Mr. Knight's In- gather from an allusion in the Plutus of Aristotroductory Notice to that tragedy will be found to phanes (B. c. 388); and we may therefore well
give valuable assistance. [P. S.] believe the assertion, that it was through his interTIMON, a statuary, of whom nothing is known course with Isocrates that his mind was directed
beyond the mention of him by Pliny as one of to higher views (Lys. de Arist. Bon. p. 155; Arist.
those who made athletes et armatos et venatores sa- Plut. 180; Schol. ad loc.; Dem. c. Aphob. i. p. 815,
crjficantesque. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 19. ~ c. Aphob. de F. T. p. 862; Pseudo-Dem. Erot. p.
34.) [P. S.] 1415). In B. c. 378, Timotheus was made general
TIMO'NAX (TmZiccYaS), wrote:lKeAcKa and with Chabrias and Callistratus, and it is possible
HIepl KUVO&v. (Schol. ad Apoll. Rlhod. iii. 1235, that, while Chabrias was occupied in Boeotia, his
iv. 328, 1217.) colleagues commanded the fleet, and were engaged
TIMO'NIDES (TLuAwvL'i-s), accompanied Dion in bringing over Euboea and other islands to the
into Sicily, and fought on his side. On one occa- Athenian confederacy (Xen. Hell. v. 4. ~ 34;
sion, when Dion had been wounded while fighting Diod. xv. 29, 30; Plut. de Glor. Ath. 8; Rehdantz,
against the mercenaries of Dionysius, and was p. 57). In B. c. 375, Timotheus was sent with
obliged to retire from the combat, he appointed sixty ships to cruize round the Peloponnesus, in
Timonides to the command of his troops. The accordance with the suggestion of the Thebans, that
history of Dion's wars in Sicily was related by the Spartans might thus be prevented from inTimonides in some letters to the philosopher Speu- vading Boeotia. On his voyage he ravaged Laconia,
sippus, which are quoted by Plutarch and Diogenes and then proceeded to Corcyra, which he brought
Laertius. (Plut. Dion, cc. 22, 30, 31, 35; Diog. over to the Athenian alliance, behaving after his
Laert. iv. 5, where TLcwiVL'8l7s must be read in- success with great moderation. This conduct, tostead of Lw,cs'i3ls; C. MUller, Fragm. Historic. gether with his conciliatory disposition and manGroaec. vol. ii. p. 83, Paris, 1848.) The Scholiast ners, contributed mainly to the prosperous issue of
on Theocritus (i. 63) quotes a work on Sicily by his further negotiations, and he succeeded in gainSimonides, where Timonides is probably likewise ing the alliance of the Cephallenians and Acarnathe correct reading. In the article SIMONIDES nians, as well as that of Alcetas I., the king of
(p. 836, b) an error has been committed, which Epirus. A Spartan fleet under Nicolochus was
may be corrected from the preceding account. sent out against him, but he defeated it off Alyzia
TIMO'PHANES (TlsyoPdcvr/e), the brother of on the Acarnanian coast, and, being strengthened
Timoleon. [TIMOLEON.] shortly after by a reinforcement from Corcyra, he
TIMO'STHENES (Tyoo0e'vs0/), the Rhodian, entirely commanded the sea, though, having brought
was the admiral of the fleet of Ptolemy Phila- with him only thirteen talents from home, he was
delphus, who reigned from B. c. 285 to 247. He greatly embarrassed for want of funds (Xen. Hell.
may therefore be placed about B. c. 282. He wrote v. 4. ~~ 62-66; Dem. c. Arist. p. 686; Isocr.
a work on Harbours (7repl Ale'Vowv), in ten books, 7repl'Avrsi. ~ 116; Diod. xv. 36; Corn. Nep. Tim.
which was copied by Eratosthenes, and which 2; Ael H.H. iii. 16; Pseudo-Arist. Oecon. ii. 23;
is frequently cited by the ancient writers. Strabo Polyaen. iii. 10). In the following year peace was
says (ix. p. 421) that Timosthenes also wrote concluded between Athens and Sparta, and Timopoetry. (Marcian. Heracleot. p. 63; Strab. ii. 92, theus was recalled. On his way, however, he
iii. p. 140, et alibi; Harpocrat. s. v..(P' Lepov; stopped at Zacynthus, and forcibly restored some
Schol. ad Tbheocr. xiii. 22; Steph. Byz. s. vv. democratic exiles who had fled to him for refuge;'Ayd'10,'ApTacbl, et alibi; Vossius, De hist. Graec. hereupon the oligarchical party in the island compp. 147, 148, ed. Westermann; Clinton, Fast. plained to Sparta, and the failure of her application
Hell. vol. iii. p. 508.) to Athens for redress led to a renewal of the war
TIMO'STRATUS (Tttdro-rpa70s), a comic poet, (Xen. Hell. vi. 2. ~~ 2, 3; Diod. xv. 45). In s. c.
of unknown time, the author of four dramas, 373, he was appointed to the command of sixty'AoCaTro, ra'o, HI paIKaTa07K'rOl and CAso3erorwrdIs, ships destined to act against MNASIrPUSin Corcyra;
of which we have scarcely any remnants, beyond but he had no means of fully manning his squadthe titles. (Antiatt. pp. 80. 12, 81. 1, 89. 23, 91. ron, and he was obliged therefore to cruize about
1, 98. 4; Phot Lex. s. v. Cd'ypa.) He is mentioned the Aegean for the purpose of collecting men and,by Photius among the poets quoted by Stobaeus money. It would appear to have been in the
(Bibl. Cod. 167, p. 374); but no references to him course of this cruize that he formed an intimacy
are found in our present copies of Stobaeus. It is with Amyntas, king of Macedonia, who made him
probable also that the name of a poet Ar1udoaparos, a present of a quantity of timber for a house which