Timæ, the wife of Agis king of Sparta, was debauched by Alcibiades, by whom she had a son. This child was rejected in the succession to the throne, though Agis, on his death-bed, declared him to be legitimate. Plutarch, Agesilaus.
Timæus, a friend of Alexander, who came to his assistance when he was alone surrounded by the Oxydracæ. He was killed in the encounter. Curtius, bk. 9, ch. 5.——An historian of Sicily, who flourished about 262 B.C., and died in the 96th year of his age. His father’s name was Andromachus. He was banished from Sicily by Agathocles. His general history of Sicily, and that of the wars of Pyrrhus, were in general esteem, and his authority was great, except when he treated of Agathocles. All his compositions are lost. Plutarch, Nicias.—Cicero, On Oratory.—Diodorus, bk. 5.—Cornelius Nepos.——A writer who published some treatises concerning ancient philosophers. Diogenes Laërtius, Empedocles.——A Pythagorean philosopher, born at Locris. He followed the doctrines of the founder of the metempsychosis, but in some parts of his system of the world he differed from him. He wrote a treatise on the nature and the soul of the world, in the Doric dialect, still extant. Plato, Timæus.—Plutarch.——An Athenian in the age of Alcibiades. Plutarch.——A sophist, who wrote a book called Lexicon vocum Platonicarum.
Timagĕnes, a Greek historian of Alexandria, 54 B.C., brought to Rome by Gabinius, and sold as a slave to the son of Sylla. His great abilities procured him his liberty, and gained the favours of the great, and of Augustus. The emperor discarded him for his impertinence; and Timagenes, to revenge himself on his patron, burnt the interesting history which he had composed of his reign. Plutarch.—Horace, bk. 1, ltr. 19, li. 15.—Quintilian.——An historian and rhetorician of Miletus.——A man who wrote an account of the life of Alexander. Curtius, bk. 9, ch. 5.——A general, killed at Cheronæa.
Timagŏras, an Athenian, capitally punished for paying homage to Darius, according to the Persian manner of kneeling on the ground, when he was sent to Persia as ambassador. Valerius Maximus, bk. 6, ch. 3.—Suidas.——Another. See: [Meles].
Timandra, a daughter of Leda, sister to Helen. She married Echemus of Arcadi. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 5.——A mistress of Alcibiades.
Timandrĭdes, a Spartan celebrated for his virtues. Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 14, ch. 32.
Timanthes, a painter of Sicyon, in the reign of Philip the father of Alexander the Great. In his celebrated painting of Iphigenia going to be immolated, he represented all the attendants overwhelmed with grief; but his superior genius, by covering the face of Agamemnon, left to the conception of the imagination the deep sorrows of the father. He obtained a prize, for which the celebrated Parrhasius was a competitor. This was in painting an Ajax with all the fury which his disappointments could occasion, when deprived of the arms of Achilles. Cicero, On Oratory.—Valerius Maximus, bk. 8, ch. 11.—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 9, ch. 11.——An athlete of Cleone, who burnt himself when he perceived that his strength began to fail. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 8.
Timarchus, a philosopher of Alexandria, intimate with Lamprocles the disciple of Socrates. Diogenes Laërtius.——A rhetorician, who hung himself when accused of licentiousness by Æschines.——A Cretan, accused before Nero of oppression. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 15, ch. 20.——An officer in Ætolia, who burnt his ships to prevent the flight of his companions, and to ensure himself the victory. Polyænus, bk. 5.——A king of Salamis.——A tyrant of Miletus, in the age of Antiochus, &c.
Timareta, a priestess of the oracle of Dodona. Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 94.
Timasion, one of the leaders of the 10,000 Greeks, &c.