Timarchus

• a sculptor, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 51.

(Τίμαρχος), historical.

1. An Athenian general, who, in conjunction with Leotrophides, was sent in command of an expedition against Megara, in B. C. 408. (Diod. 13.65.)

2. An Athenian politician, the son of Arizelus, a contemporary of Demosthenes and Aeschines. He was an active orator, and took a conspicuous part in public affairs, being the author of a considerable number of decrees. One of these forbade the exportation of arms or marine stores for the service of Philip of Macedon, under pain of death. Timarchus was, however, a man of the most profligate and abandoned habits. He joined Demosthenes in impeaching Aeschines, on the score of malversation in the embassy to Philip. Aeschines, however, anticipated him, and brought him to trial under a law of Solon, by which any one who had been guilty of such flagrant excesses as Timarchus, was forbidden to appear before the public assembly. There are different accounts as to the result of this trial. According to some, Timarchus was condemned and disfranchised; according to others, he put an end to his life even before the trial was terminated. (Plut. Vit. X. Orat. Aesch. ; Prooem. ad Aesch. adv. Tim.) Timarchus had previously been impeached by Aristogeiton, and prevented from being entrusted with a public commission. (Suidas s.v. Harpocr. s. v. Αὐτοκλείδης and Θέρσανδρος; Tzetzes, Chiliad. 6.47, &c.; Aeschines Κατὰ Τιμάρχου with Taylor's preface.)

3. A favourite of Antiochus, the son of Antiochus the Great, by whom he was appointed satrap of Babylon. He administered the affairs of his province badly, and having made a stand against Demetrius Soter, was overpowered and put to death by him. (Appian. Syr. 45, 47.)

4. A tyrant of Miletus, who was overthrown by Antiochus, the son of Antiochus Soter. The deliverance seems to have been a most welcome one, as the Milesians, in consequence of it, gave to Antiochus the surname Θεός. (Appian. Syr. 65.) [C.P.M]

(Τίμαρχος), literary.

1. A friend and disciple of Aristotle, left by him as one of the guardians of Nicanor. (Diog. Laert. 5.12.)

2. A Greek grammarian, who lived in the reign of Ptolemaeus Euergetes. (Suid. s. v. Ἀπολλώνιος.)

3. A Greek grammarian, of uncertain date. Athenaeus (xi. p. 501) quotes from the fourth book of a work by him, περὶ τοῦ Ἐρατοσθένους Ἑρμοῦ. He also wrote upon Homer (Schol. ad Il. φ. 122), and on Euripides (Schol. ad Eurip. Med. l). If the reading in Harpocration (s. v. Ἀργᾶς), is correct, Timarchus was a native of Rhodes, and was a writer on glosses. But as we find elsewhere mention of a Rhodian named Timachidas, who was a glossographer, some critics propose to alter the reading in Harpocration. The reason is not a very convincing one. (Vossius, de Hist. Gr. p. 143 ; Ruhnken, Opuscula, p. 205.) [C.P.M]

artist. [Cephisodotus, No. 2, p. 670.]

of Crete, was accused in the senate in A. D. 62, on which occasion Paetus Thrasea made a celebrated speech, the substance of which is given by Tacitus (Tac. Ann. 15.20).

• helps Lysander to win battle of Aegospotami: Paus. 10.9.9
• his statue at Delphi: Paus. 10.9.9