Timolaus
(Τιμόλαος), historical.
1. A Corinthian, who was bribed by Timocrates, when the latter was sent to Greece by Tithraustes to gain over as many of the Greeks as he could, to take the side of the Persians against Agesilaus. We find him soon after in a congress, held at Corinth, of the states that were leagued against Sparta. A speech of his on the occasion is reported by Xenophon. (Xen. Hell. 3.5.1, 4.2.11; Paus. 3.9.8.)
2. A Thehan, who is denounced by Demosthenes (de Cor. p. 241, ed. Reiske) as a traitor to his country, because he took the Macedonian side. Polybius (17.14.4) defends him from the charge. [C.P.M]
the son of Odenathus and Zenobia, the brother of Herennianus. Trebellins Pollio gives him a place in the list of the thirty tyrants [Aureolus], but has preserved no particulars with regard to his history, except that he displayed extraordinary zeal in the study of Latin literature. (Trebell. Poll. Trig. Tyrann. xxvii. ; comp. Herennianus; Odenathus; Zenobia.) [W.R]
(Τιμόλαος), literary.
1. A native of Cyzicus, who is mentioned as one of the disciples of Plato.
2. A Greek writer, a native of Larissa, and a disciple of Anaximenes of Lampsacus. He exercised his ingenuity by producing an Iliad, in which each line of Homer was followed by one of his own ; thus : -- μῆνιν ἂειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος ἣν ἔθετο Χρύσου κεχολώμενος εἵνεκα κούρης, οὐλομένην ἣ μύρἰ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγεʼ ἔθηκε μαρναμένοις ὅτε Τρωσὶν ἄτερ πολέμιζον ἄνακτος, πολλὰς δʼ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἀΐδι προΐαψεν Ἓκτορος ἐν παλάμῃσι δαϊζομένων ὑπὸ δουρί.
(Suidas, s.v. Eustath. Praef. in Od. p. 4.) Comp. Pigres. [C.P.M]
- Paus. 8.51.1
- bribed by Persians: Paus. 3.9.8