Timaeus

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?

Of the Eleatic conduct Xenophanes of Colophon is the head, who, Timaeus says, lived in the time of Hiero, lord of Sicily, and of Epicharmus the poet;

From this to the archon Euaenetus, in whose time they say Alexander crossed into Asia, as Phanias says seven hundred and fifteen years, as Ephorus seven hundred and thirty-five, as Timaeus and Cleitarchus eight hundred and twenty, as Eratosthenes seven hundred and seventy;

That splendid city, which Timaeus calls the greatest of Greek cities and the fairest of all—its citadel worth seeing, its harbours flowing in even to the bosom of the town and to the foundations of the city, broad streets, porticoes, temples, walls—all these availed nothing the more, while Dionysius held it, to make it a commonwealth;

that he was much in the company of Archytas of Tarentum and of Timaeus of Locri, and obtained the commentaries of Philolaus;

Why to the rest of the Pythagoreans — Echecrates, Timaeus, Arion, to the Locrians — that, when he had expressed Socrates, he might join the discipline of the Pythagoreans, and learn those things which Socrates rejected?

and, neatly, as Timaeus does many things, who, having said in his history that on the night Alexander was born the temple of Diana at Ephesus burned down, added that this was by no means to be wondered at, since Diana, having wished to be present at the childbed of Olympias, was absent from home.