Timagoras
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Timagoras son of Athenagoras · Timagoras the Cyzicene · Timagoras the Epicurean
in the texts
On the False Embassy
Athenian used as a historical precedent for the punishment of bribed agents.
the King had been inveigled by Timagoras, and had made him a present, as the story goes, of forty talents;
Leon denounced Timagoras, his fellow-ambassador for four years;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Exiled Cyzicene acting as an agent of Pharnabazus alongside Calligitus.
Calligitus, then, and Timagoras, acting in behalf of Pharnabazus, did not join the rest in the expedition to Chios, or give, to forward the despatch of the fleet, the money which they had brought with them, namely, five and twenty talents;
About the same time Calligitus son of Laophon, a Megarean, and Timagoras son of Athenagoras, a Cyzicene, both of them exiles from their country, and living at the court of Pharnabazus son of Pharnaces, arrived at Lacedaemon, being sent by Pharnabazus to bring a fleet despatched to the Hellespont;
The same winter, the seven and thirty ships which had been equipped by the Lacedaemonians for Pharnabazus, through the instrumentality of Calligitus the Megarean and Timagoras the Cyzicene, put out from the Peloponnese, and sailed for Ionia, about the period of the solstice, Antisthenes a Spartan being on board in command of them.
Lucullus
An Epicurean who denied experiencing a well-known optical illusion (seeing double flames when pressing the eye), used as an example of dogmatic denial to preserve sensory infallibility doctrine.
and so Timagoras the Epicurean denies that, when he had twisted his eye, two little flames from the lamp were ever seen by him;
Hellenica
Athenian envoy to the Persian King who supports Pelopidas's testimony and is subsequently executed by Athens on Leon's accusation of collusion with the Thebans.
And the Athenians, upon hearing of this, sent up Timagoras and Leon.
And the Athenian, Timagoras, bore witness in his behalf that all these things which he said were true, and so stood second in honour to Pelopidas.
Now when the ambassadors had returned to their several homes, Timagoras was put to death by the Athenians on the complaint of Leon that he had refused to share quarters with him and had taken counsel in all matters with Pelopidas.