Timotheus

but at other times also:

For Sardanapallus would never have been roused from his chamber and from among his women, not only not by a Timotheus or any other of the younger musicians, but not even by Marsyas himself or Olympus;

They say that once, when the flute-player Timotheus first gave a performance before King Alexander, he played in the king's own manner, with great skill and musicianship — no soft melody, nor a relaxed one, nor any of the kind that lead to ease and indolence, but, I believe, the very strain that is called the orthian, the air sacred to Athena.

As for Timotheus, after he had sailed round Peloponnesus he brought Corcyra at once under his control;

And the Athenians, angry as they were with the Lacedaemonians on account of Sphodrias’ act, did eagerly dispatch the expedition around Peloponnesus, manning sixty ships and choosing Timotheus as their commander.

and as soon as he sighted the ships under Timotheus, he did not delay, even though six of his ships, those from Ambracia, were not with him, but with fifty-five ships he joined battle with those under Timotheus, which numbered sixty.

All will answer with one voice, that they honored Chabrias for the battle of Naxos, and Iphicrates because he destroyed a regiment of the Lacedaemonians, and Timotheus because of his voyage to Corcyra, and other men, each because of many a glorious deed in war.

In the course of the war our general succeeded in losing seventy-five allied cities, which Timotheus, the son of Conon, had won over and made members of the synod—I am determined, as you see, to speak right out, and to seek safety in frank and truthful speaking;

Nor again did Timotheus, on the other hand, give up melody and spend his time in the wrestling-schools;

By this very art, indeed, it is said that once, when he piped the Phrygian strain to Alexander, he made him spring up to arms in the midst of his dinner, and then brought him back again to his fellow-banqueters by relaxing the harmony.

They say that Timotheus, a famous man at Athens and a chief of the state, when he had supped at Plato's and had been greatly delighted with that banquet, and had seen him the next day, said:

Likewise too Theodotus the Pythagorean did, and Paulus the acquaintance of Lacydes, as Timotheus of Pergamum says in his work On the Courage of the Philosophers, and Achaeus in his Ethics.

—To prove the truth of these allegations, please read the decree respecting the hostages, the dispatch of Iphicrates, the dispatch of Timotheus, and lastly this deposition.

But today, men of Athens, it is commonly said that Corcyra was captured by Timotheus, that the Spartan battalion was cut to pieces by Iphicrates, that the naval victory off Naxos was won by Chabrias.

Subsequently, after the decision of Timotheus to take the operations against Amphipolis before those against the Chersonesus, finding that there was no mischief he could do you in that country, he again hired himself out,—this time to the Olynthians, who were your enemies and were then holding Amphipolis.

If, however, he declares that he offered to turn over all matters at issue between us to Conon, son of Timotheus, for arbitration, and that I refused to submit them, be sure that he will be trying to mislead you.

and again, when giving your reward to Timotheus, you also for his sake rewarded Clearchus and some others with the citizenship;

For it is inconsistent to seem so generous, when the benefits are recent, that you honor not the benefactors only but their friends as well, but, when a short time has elapsed, to take away even the rewards that you have given to the benefactors.

Now, if at the time when he was receiving his reward, he had claimed that as you had rewarded others for the sake of Iphicrates and Timotheus, so for his sake you should reward some of those men who have actually received the immunity, but to whom our opponents object so strongly that they want all alike to be deprived of it, would you not have granted him that boon?

Ah, but he says the admiral pledged some copper as security.

Surely it is through men like Timotheus that banks are caused to fail;

further, I have shown you by circumstantial evidence that Timotheus owes the money to my father.

or Timotheus?

You are the men, Athenians, who once sent Timotheus to the help of Ariobarzanes, adding this clause to your instructions, provided that he does not violate our treaty with the King.

But now we often hear it said that Timotheus took Corcyra, that Iphicrates cut up the Spartan detachment, or that Chabrias won the sea-fight off Naxos.

But if Timotheus had given you the best advice he could (as indeed he did), but you had shirked your duty and paid no heed to him, would the State have reaped any of the effects that then followed?

For you know, of course, that the famous Timotheus once harangued you to the effect that you ought to send an expedition to save the Euboeans, when the Thebans were trying to enslave them, and his words ran something like this:

Yes, the power and sovereignty of Macedonia is indeed, as an adjunct, no slight contribution, as you found it when on your side against Olynthus in the days of Timotheus.

But not to spend our time rehearsing ancient examples while others are available closer to our own times, you will discover that Timotheus was deemed worthy of the highest repute and numerous honors, not because of his activities as a younger man, but because of his performances after he had studied with Isocrates.

Phanostratus was on the point of setting out with Timotheus in command of a trireme, and his ship lying at anchor at Munychia, and his brother-in-law Chaereas was there bidding him farewell.

Now, that Timotheus understood how to employ his forces to good purpose, his achievements themselves have shown;

For who does not know that Corcyra has the best strategic position among the cities in the neighborhood of the Peloponnese;

I must explain that I did not mention Timotheus when I named my other associates because he was in very different case from them.

For when all Hellas fell under the power of Athens, after the naval victory of Conon and the campaign of Timotheus, we were not able to hold our good fortune any time at all, but quickly dissipated and destroyed it.

And I think that, if Conon and Timotheus were still alive, and Diophantus had returned from Asia, they would have supported me most enthusiastically, since they would wish that I might obtain all I request.

but you I esteem and I should highly value your friendly disposition toward myself.

And do not marvel that I am so ready to write to you, though I never made any request of your father Clearchus.

I should have discussed these matters with you at greater length, and perhaps also in a more attractive style, were I not under the stern necessity of writing the letter in haste.