Theodōrus

, a Syracusan of great authority among his countrymen, who severely inveighed against the tyranny of Dionysius.――A philosopher, disciple to Aristippus. He denied the existence of a God. He was banished from Cyrene, and fled to Athens, where the friendship of Demetrius Phalereus saved him from the accusations which were carried to the Areopagus against him. Some suppose that he was at last condemned to death for his impiety, and that he drank poison.――A preceptor to one of the sons of Antony, whom he betrayed to August us.――A consul in the reign of Honor i us. Claudian wrote a poem upon him, in which he praises him with great liberality.――A secretary of Valens. He conspired against the emperor and was beheaded.――A man who compiled a history of Rome. Of this, nothing but his history of the reigns of Const an tine and Constant i us is extant.――A comic actor.――A player on the flute in the age of Demetrius Pol i or cetes, who contemptuously rejected the favours of Lamia the mistre of the monarch.――A Greek poet of Colophon, whose compositions are lost.――A sophist of Byzantium, called Logodaidalos by Plato.――A Greek poet in the age of Cleopatra. He wrote a book of metamorphoses, which Ovid imitated, as some suppose.――An artist of Samos about 700 years B.C. He was the first who found out the art of melting iron, with which he made statues.――A priest, father of I so crates.――A Greek writer, called also Prodromus . The time in which he lived is unknown. There is a romance of his composition extant, called the amours of Rho dan the and Dosicles, the only edition of which was by Gaulminus, 8vo, Paris, 1625.