Timocrates
historical figure · 10 works · 17 mentions · 32 anchored passages
the defendant · this man · you · Timocrates of Lacedaemon · Timocrates of Melitê · Timocrates the Rhodian · author of the statute · defendant · he · sir
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3 expressionsTimocrates of Lacedaemon1 mention
Hellenica (Greek)
Answer me, he said, Timocrates of Lacedaemon, did you not say a moment ago that you had come with intent to make the alliance on terms of full equality?
Timocrates the Lacedaemonian1 mention
History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek)
Then the Lacedaemonians sent to the fleet, as counsellors to Cnemus, Timocrates, Brasidas, and Lycophron;
Timocrates the Rhodian1 mention
Hellenica (Greek)
But now Tithraustes, who thought he had found out that Agesilaus despised the power of the King and did not in the least intend to depart from Asia, but rather had great hopes that he would overcome the King, being perplexed to know how to deal with the situation, sent Timocrates the Rhodian to Greece, giving him gold to the value of fifty talents of silver, and bade him undertake, on receipt of t …
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Against Timocrates
Athenian law proposer and defendant accused of unlawfully introducing a statute allowing public debtors to avoid imprisonment by sureties.
Moved by Timocrates:
—Read those words again.
Now, of all these rules the defendant Timocrates has not observed one.
Hellenica
Athenian who moves in the Senate that the remaining generals be imprisoned and handed to the Assembly for trial.
and upon motion of Timocrates, that the others also should be imprisoned and turned over to the Assembly for trial, the Senate imprisoned them.
At about this time, the first Dionysius being now dead, his son sent to the aid of the Lacedaemonians twelve triremes and Timocrates as their commander.
But now Tithraustes, who thought he had found out that Agesilaus despised the power of the King and did not in the least intend to depart from Asia, but rather had great hopes that he would overcome the King, being perplexed to know how to deal with the situation, sent Timocrates the Rhodian to Greece, giving him gold to the value of fifty talents of silver, and bade him undertake, on receipt of t …
On the Nature of the Gods
Brother of Metrodorus, subjected to Epicurus's polemical volumes after a philosophical disagreement.
As for Phaedrus, nothing was more elegant, nothing more humane, yet the old man was vexed if I said anything too harsh — while Epicurus assailed Aristotle most insultingly, spoke most foully of Phaedo the disciple of Socrates, cut to pieces in whole volumes Timocrates, the brother of his comrade Metrodorus, because he disagreed on some point of philosophy, was ungrateful to Democritus himself, who …
for Metrodorus accuses his brother Timocrates, because he hesitates to measure all that pertains to the blessed life by the belly — and he says this not once but often.
On Moral Ends
Heir of Epicurus named in his will
that Amynomachus and Timocrates, his heirs, should, by the judgment of Hermarchus, give what is enough for keeping his birthday every year in the month Gamelion, and likewise on the twentieth day of the moon in every month should give for the feast of those who studied philosophy together with him, so that the memory both of himself and of Metrodorus might be honoured.
Against Aphobus III
A man named as one of Aphobus's co-workers in suborning false witnesses.
For he has himself suborned men to bear false witness about these matters, having as co-workers his brother-in-law Onetor, and Timocrates;
Against Boeotus II
Witness for Boeotus whose testimony the speaker attacks as false and self-serving.
Timocrates alone, like a god from the machine, testified that my father gave a feast to Boeotus on the tenth day (and Timocrates is of the same age as the present defendant!
The testimony they have borne is so patently false, that, whereas you all know that Boeotus by instituting proceedings forced my father against his will to acknowledge him these men, like witnesses to a summons—and only two of them—depose that he made a feast for this fellow on the tenth day!
Against Eubulides
The speaker's maternal uncle, brother of Nicaretê, who gave her in marriage first to Protomachus and later assisted in her marriage to Thucritus; father of the witness Euxitheus.
by his first wife a daughter and a son Amytheon, and by his second wife Chaerestratê my mother and Timocrates.
For Timocrates, who is my mother’s brother, born from the same father and the same mother, had a son Euxitheus, and Euxitheus had three sons.
Protomachus was a poor man, but becoming entitled to inherit a large estate by marrying an heiress, and wishing to give my mother in marriage, he persuaded my father Thucritus, an acquaintance of his, to take her, and my father received my mother in marriage at the hands of her brother Timocrates of Melitê, in the presence of both his own uncles and other witnesses;
Against Meidias
Named supporter of Meidias in the present case.
But now, I believe, his champions are Polyeuctus and Timocrates and the ragamuffin Euctemon.
Against Onetor I
The woman's first husband and a later Athenian archon, who allegedly retained her dowry as an interest-bearing loan rather than surrendering it to Aphobus.
I asked Onetor and Timocrates whether any witnesses were present when they paid the dowry, and Aphobus himself whether any were present when he received it;
He did, however, give him his sister, but the portion, Timocrates, who had been her former husband, agreed to keep as a loan with interest at the rate of five obols.
I shall bring forward witnesses, and in the first instance Timocrates himself, who will testify that he agreed to hold the dowry as a loan, and that he continued to pay interest on it to Aphobus according to the agreement;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Spartan counsellor sent to Cnemus's fleet who later dies aboard a Leucadian ship sunk near Naupactus.
Then the Lacedaemonians sent to the fleet, as counsellors to Cnemus, Timocrates, Brasidas, and Lycophron;
Now on board the Leucadian ship, which went down off the merchant-vessel, was Timocrates the Lacedaemonian;