Theopompus

Are we, then, to allow Theopompus and Timaeus to compose fables and slanders, and Epicurus besides, the founder of atheism, and Hipponax and Archilochus to write with such shamelessness, and yet forbid the man who proclaims the truth to leave behind a benefit for those who come after?

but as Aristoxenus, in his Life of Pythagoras, and Aristarchus and Theopompus say, he was a Tyrrhenian;

Indeed, Theopompus, in the forty-third book of his Philippica, relates that Homer was born five hundred years after those who marched against Ilium.

and of those who then made counter-claims to this estate not one ventured to swear that he was nearer of kin than the lady (for it was admitted by all that the inheritance belonged to her by virtue of nearest kinship), but Glaucus of Oeon and Glaucon his brother presented themselves, having concocted a spurious will, and Theopompus, the father of Macartatus here, joined with them in getting up thi …

And Theopompus, the father of Macartatus here, although he was in town when the herald asked by proclamation whether anyone wished to lay claim to the estate of Hagnias by virtue of kinship or under a will, or to deposit security for the costs of such claim, yet did not venture to make a deposit, but by his own act gave judgement against himself that he had no conceivable claim on the estate of Hagnias.

Theopompus, however, the father of the defendant Macartatus, not being himself of the branch of Hagnias, told the jurymen a monstrous lie regarding Phylomachê, the sister of Polemon and the aunt of Hagnias, alleging that she was not the sister of Polemon, the son of Hagnias, by the same father and mother, and another in pretending that he himself was of the same family as Hagnias, whereas he had never belonged to it.

once this office was established in Sparta, in the reign of Theopompus, for a year at a time, and nonetheless prevailed over the kings;

But of the foremost, Thucydides seems to me the best, and of the second rank Theopompus.

for at Sparta too, in the reign of Theopompus, there are likewise five whom they call ephors, and in Crete ten who are called cosmoi, set up against the kingly power, as the tribunes of the plebs against the consular command.

among whom was Theopompus, the king of the Lacedaemonians, a noble victim.

what their father Theopompus left them he handed over to their enemies, and what their maternal uncle and their grandfather gave them he himself appropriated before any judgement had been given.

), and four daughters, one of whom was married to my father, Polyaratus, another to Democles of Phrearrhi, the third to Cephisophon of Paeania, while the fourth was the wife of Theopompus, the father of Cephisodotus.

After this, Stratocles and Stratius having died, Theopompus, acting alone, brought a suit against her and was awarded the estate.

I have read you the laws because my opponent bases on the first of them the claim of the child to half the estate—a claim which is false.

But we—that is to say, Stratius, Stratocles, and myself—since the estate had now become adjudicable to the next-of-kin, all prepared to bring a suit.

but the same Theopompus reports many gods too.

But Suetonius too says that Nero, and Theopompus that Thrasymedes, never dreamed, save that Nero scarcely did, at his last end, after his terrors.

Phalinus, at this moment, as you see for yourself, we have no other possession save arms and valour.

Then Theopompus, an Athenian, said:

Furthermore, on the day when he achieved this victory he sent Theopompus, the Milesian buccaneer, to Lacedaemon to report what had happened, and Theopompus arrived and delivered his message on the third day.