Timon

, a native of Athens, called Misanthrope , for his unconquerable aversion to mankind and to all society. He was fond of Apemantus, another A then i an whose character was similar to his own, and he said that he had some partiality for Alcibiades, because he was one day to be his country’s ruin. Once he went into the public a embly, and told his countrymen that he had a fig tree on which many had ended their life with a halter, and that as he was going to cut it down to raise a building on the spot, he advised all such as were inclined to destroy themselves, to hasten and go and hang themselves in his garden. Plutarch , Alcibiades , . — Lucan , Timon .— Pausanias , bk. 6 , ch. 12 .――A Greek poet, son of Timarchus, in the age of Ptolemy Philadelphus. He wrote several dramatic pieces, all now lost, and died in the 90th year of his age. Diogenes Laërtius. — Athenæus , bks. 6 & 13.――An athlete of Elis. Pausanias , bk. 6 , ch. 12 .