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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theomestor (search)
Theomestor （*Qeomh/stwr), a Samian, son of Androdamas, commanded a vessel in the Persian fleet at Salamis (B. C. 480), and for his services in that battle was made tyrant of Samos by Xerxes. (Hdt. 8.85, 9.90.) [E.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theron (search)
rom Himera [TERILLUS], which took place probably as early as B. C. 482. (Hdt. 7.165.) While he by this means united Himera to his own dominions, and thus ruled over two of the most powerful cities of Sicily, he was in close alliance with Gelon, ruler of Syracuse and Gela, to whom he had given his daughter Demarete in marriage. (Schol. ad Pind. Ol. II. init.) Their combined strength was soon called forth to resist the formidable Carthaginian armament under Hamilcar which landed in Sicily in B. C. 480, with the professed object of restoring Terillus. Theron himself had occupied Himera with a large force, but terrified at the magnitude of the Carthaginian army, he shut himself up within the walls of the city, and sent to Gelon for assistance. In the great victory which followed, the Syracusan king appears to have borne by far the greatest part [GELON]; but Theron derived a large share of its advantages, and was not only left in undisputed possession of Himera, but received so large a num
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tigra'nes (search)
Tigra'nes 2. A Persian of the royal race of the Achaemenidae, who commanded the Median troops in the army of Xerxes, with which he invaded Greece, B. C. 480. After the defeat of the Persian king, Tigranes was appointed to command the army of 60,000 men, which was destined to maintain possession of Ionia. (Hdt. 7.62, 9.96.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Timo'xenus (search)
Timo'xenus （*Timo/cenos). 1. The commander of the troops of Scione, attempted to betray Potidaea to the Persians in B. C. 480, but his treachery was discovered. (Hdt. 8.128 ; Polyaen. 7.33.1; Aeneas Tact. Poliorcet. p. 31
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Tritantaechmes (search)
Tritantaechmes 2. A son of Artabanus [No. 1], and a cousin therefore of Xerxes, was one of the commanders of the Persian infantry when the barbarians invaded Greece in B. C. 480. After the battle of Thermopylae, when the Persians had been informed by some Arcadian deserters of the contests at Olympia for no other prize than a simple olive-crown, Tritantaechmes exclaimed that men who thus strove, not for gain, but for glory, could not be attacked with much chance of success, a sentiment which Xerxes ascribed to cowardice. (Hdt. 7.82, 121, 8.26.) [E.E]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vibula'nus (search)
Vibula'nus 1. Q. Fabius Vibulanus, K. F., consul B. C. 485 with Ser. Cornelius Cossus Maluginensis, carried on war with success against the Volsci and Aequi; but instead of dividing the booty among the soldiers, he sold it, and deposited the money arising from the sale in the public treasury. In this year Sp. Cassius Viscellinus was condemned to death. In B. C. 482 Fabius Vibulanus was consul a second time with C. Julius Julus. Both consuls marched against the Veientes, but as the enemy did not appear in the field, they devastated their land and returned home. In B. C. 480 Fabius fought under his brother Marcus [No. 3] against the Etruscans, and was killed in battle. (Liv. 2.41-43, 46; Dionys. A. R. 8.77, 82, 90, 9.11.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vibula'nus (search)
ientes, and this in accordance with Dionysius and Zonaras.) Fabius conducted the war with success, and put the enemy to the rout with his cavalry alone; but when he commanded his infantry to pursue the defeated army, they refused obedience to his orders, on account of his opposition to the agrarian law, and returned to their camp, which they soon afterwards deserted, to the astonishment of the enemy. (Liv. 2.43 ; Dionys. A. R. 9.1, foil.; Zonar. 7.17; V. Max. 9.3.5.) In the following year, B. C. 480, he again fought against the Veientes, serving under his brother Marcus, who was then consul, and his colleague Cn. Manlius Cincinnatus. The soldiers were still indisposed to obey the commands of a Fabius, but the dangers of their situation and the scoffs of the enemy turned their purpose, and they demanded to be led forth against the foe. On that day the Fabii were an example to the whole army. Quintus, who had been consul two years before, fell in the hottest of the fight; but his brothe
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Vibula'nus (search)
eceding, was consul B. C. 483 with L. Valerius Potitus. He resisted the efforts of the tribunes to carry the Agrarian law of Sp. Cassius into effect; and as they in consequence impeded the levy of troops, the consuls removed their tribunals outside the city, where the power of the tribunes did not extend, and by heavy punishments compelled the citizens to enlist. The consuls then carried on war against the Volscians, but without any decisive result. (Liv. 2.42 , Dionys. A. R. 8.87, 88.) In B. C. 480 M. Fabius was consul a second time with Cn. Manlius Cincinnatus. The two consuls marched against the Veientes, but did not venture at first to attack the enemy, lest their own soldiers Should desert them as they had done K. Fabius in the preceding year. They accordingly kept their troops in their intrenchments, till the soldiers, roused at length by the taunts and scoffs of the enemy, demanded to be led forth to battle, and swore that they would not leave the field except as conquerors. Th
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Xanthus (search)
te given by Suidas must be that of the birth of Xanthus, which is a most unusual sense of gegonw/s in Suidas, or else that the passage has been corrupted by a transcriber, who accidentally repeated the word *Sa/rdewn. (The passage is *Ca/nqos, *Kandau/lou, *Audo\s e)k *Sa/rdewn: i(storiko/s: gegonw\s e)pi\ th=s a(lw/sews *Sa/rdewn). This is the suggestion of Creuzer, who proposes to substitute *)Aqhnw=n for *Sa/rdewn, thus referring the time of Xanthus to the taking of Athens by Xerxes, in B. C. 480; but, though this correction may give a truer date for Xanthus, it can hardly be accepted as being what Suidas wrote. Works Histories A far more important question, than this difference of twenty years or so in the date of Xanthus, is that of the genuineness of the Four Books of Lydian History (*Ludiaka\ bibli/a d/, Suid.), which the ancients possessed, as well as an epitome of them by a certain Menippus (D. L. 6.101, [*Me/nippos] o( gra/yas ta\ peri\ *Ludw=n kai\ *Ca/nqon e)pitemo/me
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
the account which Aeschylus gives in the " Persae " of the dreadful calamities which overtook the retreating army is probably much exaggerated. * See Grote, History of Greece, vol. v. pp. 190, 191, note, where forcible reasons are adduced to show that the loss of the army in crossing the river Strymon is probably a fable. On arriving at the Hellespont, Xerxes found the bridge of boats destroyed by a storm, and he crossed over to Asia by ship. He entered Sardis towards the end of the year, B. C. 480, humbled and defeated, only eight months after he had left it full of arrogance and sure of victory. In the following year, B. C. 479, the war was continued in Greece; but Mardonius was defeated at Plataea by the combined forces of the Greeks, and on the same day another victory was gained over the Persians at Mycale in Ionia. [MARDONIUS.] Next year, B. C. 478, the Persians lost their last possession in Europe by the capture of Sestos on the Hellespont. Thus the struggle was virtually br
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