Timodemus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Timodemus of Aphidnae
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1 expressionTimodemus of Aphidnae1 mention
The Histories (Greek)
But when Themistocles returned to Athens from Lacedaemon, Timodemus of Aphidnae, who was one of Themistocles ' enemies but not a man of note, was crazed with envy and spoke bitterly to Themistocles of his visit to Lacedaemon, saying that the honors he had from the Lacedaemonians were paid him for Athens ' sake and not for his own.
in the texts
For Phormio
Former slave of Socles, still alive, and a banker associated with creditor settlement.
And Sosinomus and Timodemus and the other bankers, who, when they had to settle with their creditors, had to give up all their property.
Another, Socles, who had been in the banking business, gave his wife in marriage to Timodemus, who is still in being and alive, who had been his slave.
The Histories
An Athenian of no great note, hostile to Themistocles, who taunts him for his Spartan honors and receives a sharp reply.
But when Themistocles returned to Athens from Lacedaemon, Timodemus of Aphidnae, who was one of Themistocles ' enemies but not a man of note, was crazed with envy and spoke bitterly to Themistocles of his visit to Lacedaemon, saying that the honors he had from the Lacedaemonians were paid him for Athens ' sake and not for his own.
This he kept saying until Themistocles replied, “This is the truth of the matter:
Against Euthynus
A man who extorted thirty minas from Nicias by threatening him with summary arrest, cited as evidence of Nicias's vulnerability at the time.
for he knows that Timodemus extorted thirty minas from Nicias, not by demanding the payment of a debt, but by threatening him with summary arrest.