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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Phyton (search)
Phyton （*Fu/twn), a citizen of Rhegium, who was chosen by his countrymen to be their general, when the city was besieged by the elder Dionysius, B. C. 388. He animated the Rhegians to the most vigorous defence, and displayed all the qualities and resources of an able general, as well as a brave warrior; and it was in great measure owing to him that the siege was protracted for a space of more than eleven months. At length, however, the besieged were compelled by famine to surrender, and the heroic Phyton fell into the hands of the tyrant, who, after treating him with the most cruel indignities, put him to death, together with his son and all his other relations (Diod. 14.108, 111, 112). Diodorus tells us that the virtues and unhappy fate of Phyton were a favourite subject of lamentation with the Greek poets, but none of these passages have come down to us. The only other author now extant who mentions the name of Phyton is Philostratus (Vit. Apoll. 1.35, 7.2), who appears to have fol
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Sulpi'cius Rufus 1. Ser. Sulpicius Rufus, was consular tribune three times. namely in B. C. 388, 384, and 383. (Liv. 6.4, 18, 21.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Teleu'tias (search)
Thrasybulus, with forty ships, to act against Teleutias, especially in the support of the democratic party at Rhodes; but Thrasybulus, on his arrival at that island, found that his friends there were strong enough to be able to dispense with his assistance, while, on the other hand, he could not hope to effect much against the opposite party, aided as it was by the Lacedaemonians. He therefore proceeded to the Hellespont, and Teleutias meanwhile remained in the south, where we find him, in B. C. 388, bringing effectual assistance to the Aeginetans, whom a body of Athenians, under Pamphilus, were annoying from a fortified post which they had established and occupied in the island while the Athenian fleet was blockading the coast. Teleutias chased away the enemy's ships, but Pamphilus still continued to hold the fort,-- and shortly after this Teleutias was superseded by Hierax, having endeared himself to his men during his command, in a very remarkable manner, as they showed by their en
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Thea'rides (search)
Thea'rides （*Qeari/dhs), a Syracusan, son of Hermocrates and brother of Dionysius the elder, tyrant of Syracuse. He is first mentioned in B. C. 390, when he was appointed by Dionysius to succeed his brother Leptines in the command of the fleet. The next year he commanded an expedition to the Liparaean islands, where he captured ten ships belonging to the Rhegians. Again in B. C. 388 he was chosen by his brother to conduct the magnificent procession which Dionysius sent to the Olympic festival. (Diod. xiv 102, 103, 109.) [E.H.B
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Thrasy Bu'lus 5. An Athenian, a native of the deme Colyttus, was one of the companions of Thrasybulus the Steirian at Phyle and Peiraeus. In B. C. 388 he was in command of eight ships off the coast of Thrace. We learn that nevertheless he was twice condemned and thrown into prison. (Xen. Hell. 5.1.26; Demosth. ad v. Timocr. p. 742.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Timo'theus (search)
demus of Anaphlystus, and, according to a probable conjecture of Boeckh, belonged to the priestly family of the Eumolpidae (Corp. Inscr. 393 ; see Rehdantz, Vit. Iph. Chabr. Tim. p. 45). For the statement of Athenaeus (xiii. p. 577a), that his mother was a Thracian hetaera, there appear to be no good grounds. Inheriting a considerable fortune from his father, he seems in his early years to have indulged in the display of it, as we may gather from an allusion in the Plutus of Aristophanes (B. C. 388); and we may therefore well believe the assertion, that it was through his intercourse with Isocrates that his mind was directed to higher views (Lys. de Arist. Bon. p. 155; Arist. Plut. 180 ; Schol. ad loc. ; Dem. c. Aphob. i. p. 815, c. Aphob. de F. T. p. 862; Pseudo-Dem. Erot. p. 1415). In B. C. 378, Timotheus was made general with Chabrias and Callistratus, and it is possible that, while Chabrias was occupied in Boeotia, his colleagues commanded the fleet, and were engaged in bringing
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tiribazus (search)
austes as satrap of Western Asia, and in this office we find him in B. C. 393, when Antalcidas was sent to negotiate, through him, a peace for Sparta with the Persian king. The satrap was convinced by Antalcidas that it was expedient for Artaxerxes to support the Lacedaeonians, and he according gave them all the help which he could venture to furnish without express authority from his master. We do not know the cause which led to Tiribazus being superseded by Struthas, in B. C. 392; but by B. C. 388 he had returned to his satrapy. He co-operated cordially, as before, with Antalcidas, perhaps accompanied him to the Persian court to support his cause there, and, having summoned, on his return, a congress of deputies from Greek states, he promulgated in the king's name the famous decree which laid down the terms of the peace of Antalcidas (Xen. Hell. 4.8. §§ 12, &c., v. 50. §§ 6, 25-31; Diod. 14.85). [ANTALCIDAS ; CONON; STRUTHAS.] In B. C. 386 he was appointed to command the Persian fle
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