Hermotimus
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Hermotimus of Pedasa
in the texts
De Anima
Figure deified by the people of Clazomenae after his death.
such as Hermotimus, to whom the people of Clazomenae dedicated a temple when he was dead;
Aethalides, moreover, and Hermotimus had even thrust the bean into the common foods;
How will he persuade me that he was Aethalides and Euphorbus and Pyrrhus the fisherman and Hermotimus, before Pythagoras, in order to persuade me that the living are made out of the dead — he who again perjured himself to be Pythagoras?
The Histories
Eunuch from Pedasa, castrated in youth by Panionius and later Xerxes's most trusted eunuch, who exacts a brutal revenge upon his former captor.
With these sons he sent Hermotimus as guardian.
Panionius accepted his offer gladly, and brought his children and his wife.
When Hermotimus had gotten the man and all his household into his power, he said to him: