Publi'cola, Vale'rius
7. P. Valerius Publicola, consul B. C. 352, with C. Marcius Rutilus, and praetor two years afterwards, B. C. 350, in which year he had the command of the army of reserve in the war against the Gauls. In B. C. 344 he was appointed dictator, for the purpose of celebrating games in consequence of the appearance of prodigies. (Liv. 7.21, 23, 28.)
t, notwithstanding the public danger, they threw every obstacle in the way of the preparations for the war.
The people, however, eagerly supplied Rutilus with every thing that was needed, and enabled him to take the field with a well appointed army. Their expectations of success were fully realised.
The plebeian dictator defeated the Etruscans with great slaughter; but is the senate refused him a triumph, notwithstanding his brilliant victory, he celebrated one by comnand of the people. In B. C. 352 he obtained the consulship a second time with P. Valerius Publicola; and in the following year, B. C. 351, he was the first plebeian censor.
He was consul for the third time in B. C. 344 with T. Manlius Torquatus, and for the fourth time in B. C. 342 with Q. Servilius Ahala.
In the latter year, which was the second of the Samnite war, Rutilus was stationed in Campania, and there discovered a formidable conspiracy among the Roman troops, which he quelled before it broke out by his wise and
ear in which the former temple was burnt (Paus. 8.45.1).
The part ascribed to him in the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, on the authority of Pliny (Plin. Nat. 36.14. s. 21), is a matter of some doubt; but the period to which this testimony would extend his career is established by the undoubted evidence of his share in the sculptures of the Mausoleum in Ol. 107, about B. C. 350, or even a little later.
The date cannot be assigned with exactness to a year; but, as Mausolus died in Ol. 106. 4, B. C. 352, and the edifice seems to have been commenced almost immediately, and, upon the death of Artemisia, two years after that of her husband, the artists engaged on the work continued their labours voluntarily, it would follow that they were working at the sculptures both before and after B. C. 350 (Plin. Nat. 36.5. s. 4.9; Vitruv. vii. praef. § 12). On these grounds the period of Scopas may be assigned as from B. C. 395 to B. C. 350, and perhaps a little earlier and later.
He was probably some
Sitmon
（*Si/mwn), a Thracian prince, was connected by marriage with Amadocus, who appears to have been a son of Cotys [No. 2], and brother to Cersobleptes and Berisades. On the death of the latter, when Cersobleptes wished, with the aid of Charidemus, to seize all the dominions of Cotys, and to exclude Amadocus and the children of Berisades from their inheritance, Simon was prepared to assist Amadocus against the intended usurpation; and, according to Demosthenes, the remarkable decree of Aristocrates in favour of Charidemus (B. C. 352) was framed with the view of disarming this opposition, especially as Simon had been honoured with the Athenian franchise. (Dem. c. Aristocr. pp. 624, 625, 680, 683.) [CERSOBLEPTES ; CHARIDEMUS.] [E.
te to be discussed here; nor is it of much importance, since the age of Theodectes can be determined on other grounds.
He was one of the orators who contended for the prize proposed by Artemisia for a funeral oration in honour of Mausolus, in B. C. 352 (Suid. s.v. Aul. Gel. 10.18 : Suidas, however, gives the date wrongly, Ol. 103, rg', instead of Ol. 107, rz' ; see Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. s. a., and p. 287). Now the visit of Alexander to Phaselis was in Ol. 111. 4, B. C. 333; and, if we assumnown in rhetoric, that he turned his attention to tragedy. (Suid. Plut. Vit. Isocr. ; Phot. Bibl. 260, ll. cc.). If, therefore, the view above stated be correct, that he brought out his tragedy of Mansolus at the funeral of the Carian prince in B. C. 352, it may be assumed that this was about the time when he began to compose tragedies.
The number of his dramas is uniformly stated as fifty. (Suid.; Steph.; Eustath. ; ll. cc.) According to his epitaph, quoted above, he entered the dramatic conte
c. de Orat. 2.13, 22.) Like his master Isocrates, however, he composed many orations of the kind, called Epideitic by the Greeks, that is, speeches on set subjects delivered for display, such as eulogiums upon states and individuals, and similar subjects.
He himself tells us that there was no important city of Greece, in which he had not remained some time, and where he had not obtained great glory by the public exhibition of his oratorical powers. One instance of the kind is recorded. In B. C. 352 he contended at Halicarnassus with Naucrates and his master Isocrates for the prize of oratory, given by Artemisia in honour of her husband, and gained the victory (Gel. 10.18; Plut. Vit. dec. Orat. p. 838b; Euseb. Praep. Ev. 10.3.)
The other places which he visited are not mentioned; but it appears from his own account, to which we have already referred, that he spent the greater part of the time of his exile in travelling, and in the acquisition of know ledge.
He was able to pursue this
Theri'machus
a painter and statuary, flourished at Ol. 107, B. C. 352, with Echion, who also practised both arts. No works of his are mentioned. (Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19, 35.10. s. 36.9.) [P.S]
ue. § 42). We do not know the exact date of the birth or death of Timaeus, but we can make an approximation to it, which cannot be very far from the truth. We know that his history was brought down to B. C. 264 (Plb. 1.5), and that he attained the age of ninety-six (Lucian, Macrob. 22). Now as his father could not have been a very young man between B. C. 358 and 344, during which time he held the tyrannis of Tauromenium, we probably shall not be far wrong in placing the birth of Timaeus in B. C. 352, and his death in B. C. 256. We learn from Suidas that Timaeus received instruction from Philiscus, the Milesian, a disciple of Isocrates; but we have no further particulars of his life, except that he was banished from Sicily by Agathocles, and passed his exile at Athens, where he had lived fifty years when he wrote the thirty-fourth book of his history (Diod. Exc. ex libr. xxi. p. 560, Wess.; Polyb. Exc. Vat. pp. 389, 393; Plut. de Exil. p. 605c). We are not informed in what year he was
