Timotheus

, a poet and musician of Miletus, son of Thersander or Philopolis. He was received with hi es the first time he exhibited as musician in the a embly of the people; and further applications would have totally been abandoned, had not Euripi des discovered his abilities, and encouraged him to follow a profe ion in which he afterwards gained so much applause. He received the immense sum of 1000 pieces of gold from the Ephesians, because he had composed a poem in honour of Diana. He died about the 90th year of his age, two years before the birth of Alexander the Great. There was also another musician of Bœtia in the age of Alexander, often confounded with the musician of Miletus. He was a great favourite of the conqueror of Darius. Cicero , de Legibus , bk. 2 , ch. 15 .— Pausanias , bk. 3 , ch. 12 .— Plutarch , de Music a , de For tuna , . ――An A then i an general, son of Conon. He signalized himself by his valour and magnanimity, and showed that he was not inferior to his great father in military prudence. He seized Corcyra, and obtained several victories over the The bans, but his ill succe in one of his expeditions disgusted the A then i ans, and Timotheus, like the rest of his noble predece ors, was fined a large sum of money. He retired to Chalcis, where he died. He was so disinterested, that he never appropriated any of the plunder to his own use, but after one of his expeditions, he filled the treasury of Athens with 1200 talents. Some of the ancients, to imitate his continual succe es, have represented him sleeping by the side of Fortune, while the godde drove cities into his net. He was intimate with Plato, at whose table he learned temperance and moderation. Athenæus , bk. 10 , ch. 3 .— Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 29 .— Plutarch , Sulla , . — Ælian , Varia Hist or i a , bk. 2 , chs. 10 & 18; bk. 3 , ch. 16 .— Cornel i us Nepos. ――A Greek statuary. Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 32 .――A tyrant of Heraclea, who murdered his father. Diodorus , bk. 16 .――A king of the Sapæi.