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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Demo'chares (search)
or, first to Philip (Seneca, de Ira, 3.23), and afterwards to Antipater, the son of Cassander. (Polyb. l.c.) In the same year he concluded a treaty with the Boeotians, in consequence of which he was expelled soon after by the antidemocratic party, probably through the influence of Lachares. In the archonship of Diodes, B. C. 287 or 286, however, he again returned to Athens, and distinguished himself in the administration of the public finances, especially by reducing the expenditure. About B. C. 282 he was sent as ambassador to Lysimachus, from whom he obtained at first thirty, and afterwards one hundred talents. At the same time he proposed an embassy to the king of Egypt, from which the Athenians gained the sum of fifty talents. The last act of his life of which we have any record, is that, in B. C. 280, in the archonship of Gorgias, he proposed and carried the decree in honour of his uncle Demosthenes. (Plut. Vit. X Orat. pp. 847, 850.) Demochares developed his talents and princi
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
presentative of the poverty and honesty of the good old times. He is first mentioned in B. C. 285 or 284, when he was sent as ambassador to the Tarentines and other allied states, to dissuade them from making war against Rome, but he was apprehended by them, while they sent embassies to the Etruscans, Umbrians, and Gauls, for the purpose of forming a general coalition against Rome. (Dio Cass. Frag. 144, ed. Reimar.) He must, however, have been released soon afterwards, for he was consul in B. C. 282 with Q. Aemillus Papus. In his consulship he had to carry on war in Southern Italy against the Samnites, Lucanians, and Bruttii. He marched first to the relief of the town of Thurii, to which the Lucanians and Bruttii had laid siege, under the command of Statilius; but on leading out his army against the enemy, his soldiers lost courage at seeing that their forces were much smaller than those of the foe, when suddenly a youth of gigantic stature appeared at their front, carrying a scaling
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Papus (search)
Papus 2. Q. Aemilius Papus, twice consul, first in B. C. 282, and again in 278, and censor in 275. In both his consulships and in his censorship he had as colleague C. Fabricius Luscinus. In his former consulship he was employed against the Etruscans and Boians, while Fabricius was engaged in Southern Italy. He completely defeated the allied forces, and the chastisement which the Boians received was so severe, that Cisalpine Gaul remained quiet for upwards of fifty years (Dionys. A. R. 18.5 ; comp. Plb. 2.20). The passage in Frontinus (1.2.7) which speaks of the defeat of the Boii by Aemilius Paullus (an error for Papus), is rightly referred by Niebuhr (Hist. of Rome, vol. iii. p. 430) to the above-mentioned victory, though most modern writers make it relate to the conquest of the Gauls by the consul of B. C. 225 [see below, No. 3]. In B. C. 280 he accompanied Fabricius, as one of the three ambassadors who were sent to Pyrrhus. The history of this embassy, as well as of his second co
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Timo'sthenes (search)
Timo'sthenes （*Timosqe/nhs), the Rhodian, was the admiral of the fleet of Ptolemy Philadelphus, who reigned from B. C. 285 to 247. He may therefore be placed about B. C. 282. He wrote a work on Harbours (peri\ lime/nwn), in ten books, which was copied by Eratosthenes, and which is frequently cited by the ancient writers. Strabo says (ix. p. 421) that Timosthenes also wrote poetry. (Marcian. Heracleot. p. 63; Strab. 2.92, iii. p. 140, et alibi; Harpocrat. s. v. e)f) i(ero/n ; Schol. ad Theocr. 13.22; Steph. Byz. s. vv. *)Aga/qh, *)Arta/kh, et alibi; Vossius, De Hist. Graec. pp. 147, 148, ed. Westermann; Clinton, Fast. Hell. vol. iii. p. 508