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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Pam'philus (search)
the Athenians. The date of the second edition of the Plutus was B. C. 388. Taking, then, this date as about the commencement of the career of Pamphilus, we must, on the other hand, place him as low as B. C. 352, when his disciple Apelles began to flourish. And these dates agree with all the other indications of his time. Thus, he is mentioned by Quintilian (l.c.) among the artists who flourished in the period commencing with the reign of Philip II.; Pliny places him immediately before Echion and Therimachus, who flourished in the 107th Olympiad, B. C. 352; and the battle of Phlius, which he painted, must have been fought between Ol. 102 and 104, B. C. 372 and 364 (Müller, Proleg. zu Mythol. p. 400). What victory of the Athenians formed the subject of the other picture mentioned by Pliny, is not known: it may be the naval victory of Chabrias, at Naxos, in B. C. 376. Among the pupils of Pamphilus, besides Apelles and Melanthius, was Pausias, whom he instructed in encaustic painting
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Timo'theus (search)
y statements connected with the circumstances of Timotheus at this period, which we must of course regard with suspicion; but we learn from it certainly that he was now reduced to great pecuniary embarrassments, having probably expended his money in the public service, and was even compelled to borrow from Pasion wherewithal to receive his distinguished guests above mentioned (Xen. Hell. 6.2. §§ 11-13; Diod. 15.47; Dem. c. Tim. pp. 1186-1192, &c.; Corn. Nep. Tim. 4). In the following year (B. C. 372) he entered into the service of Artaxerxes II., king of Persia, find went to command against Nectanabis I. in Egypt ; but of his operations in this quarter we have no record (Dem. c. Tim. pp. 1191, 1192, 1195). It appears to have been about B. C. 367 that he was sent by the Athenians to aid ARIOBARZANES, with an injunction, however, not to abet him in any enterprise against the king, his master; and accordingly, when he found that he was in open revolt from Artaxerxes, he refused to give h
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
t would discharge a quantity equal to its capacity in half the time it would empty itself unrenewed. Athenaeus, a distinguished Greek writer of the third century, A. D., a native of Egypt, in the course of his table-talk mentions that Plato (372 B. C.) had constructed a clepsydra or waterdial which played upon pipes the hours of the night, at a time when they could not be seen on the index. Vitruvius dates the invention something over 100 years later, attributes it to Ctesibus of Alexandrr-glasses were not then known in England, though they are regarded as very ancient, and were certainly known in Rome long previously. The first striking or audible notification of the hour, on record, is the clepsydra or water-dial of Plato, 372 B. C., which, by the agency of water, sounded upon organ-pipes the hour of the night when the index could not be seen. The contrivance is mentioned by Athenaeus of Egypt, a distinguished Greek writer of the third century, and author of the Deipnosop
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