Timæus

, a friend of Alexander, who came to his a istance 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 And rom ach us. 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 .— Cornel i us 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 A then i an in the age of Alcibiades. Plutarch. ――A sophist, who wrote a book called Lexicon vocum Platonic arum .