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 who was the father of Theopompus?

Yet if Theopompus, the father of the defendant, is dead, the laws are not dead, nor is justice, nor are the jurymen with whom the verdict rests.

All these assertions Theopompus made fearlessly, not producing any witness who would have been responsible to us, but having only his associates to corroborate what he said;

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.

He thus had a total income of rather more than 20 minae.

You will thus learn whether, or no, the child has any right to the fortune of Hagnias.

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

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.

Then Theopompus, an Athenian, said:

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

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.