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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'stratus (search)
atus has written the lives of the most distinguished sophists, without minuteness and gracefully (e)c e)pidromh=s meta\ xa/ritos). Olearius, following the suggestion of Perizonius, and attending to the distinction made by Philostratus between the oldest and the more recent schools of rhetoric, with great propriety divides the Lives into three parts, of which the first is the shortest, and contains mere notices, in most cases, of the sophistic philosophers, beginning with Eudoxus of Cnidus, B. C. 366, and ending with Dion Chrysostom and Favorinus, a contemporary of Herodes Atticus, on whom he dwells a little more fully--eight lives in all. He then begins with the sophists proper of the old school, commencing with Gorgias (born about B. C. 480), and ending with Isocrates (born B. C. 438), who (eight in all) may be said to belong to the school of Gorgias. He begins the newer school of sophists with Aeschines (who was born B. C. 389), which seems mainly introductory, and to prove his posi
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'stratus (search)
atus has written the lives of the most distinguished sophists, without minuteness and gracefully (e)c e)pidromh=s meta\ xa/ritos). Olearius, following the suggestion of Perizonius, and attending to the distinction made by Philostratus between the oldest and the more recent schools of rhetoric, with great propriety divides the Lives into three parts, of which the first is the shortest, and contains mere notices, in most cases, of the sophistic philosophers, beginning with Eudoxus of Cnidus, B. C. 366, and ending with Dion Chrysostom and Favorinus, a contemporary of Herodes Atticus, on whom he dwells a little more fully--eight lives in all. He then begins with the sophists proper of the old school, commencing with Gorgias (born about B. C. 480), and ending with Isocrates (born B. C. 438), who (eight in all) may be said to belong to the school of Gorgias. He begins the newer school of sophists with Aeschines (who was born B. C. 389), which seems mainly introductory, and to prove his posi
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Sci'pio (search)
Sci'pio 2. P. Cornelius Scipio, probably son of the preceding, was one of the first curule aediles, who were appointed in B. C. 366, when one place in the consulship was thrown open to the plebeians. He is apparently the same as the L. Scipio who was magister equitum to the dictator Camillus, in B. C. 350. (Liv. 7.1, 24.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Se'xtia Gens plebeian. This name is frequently confounded with that of Sestius. [SESTIA GENS.] On coins we find only Sestius, never Sextius. The first member of the Sextia gens who obtained the consulship was L. Sextius Sextinus Lateranus in B. C. 366, who was the first plebeian that obtained this honour, after one place in the consulship was secured for the plebeian order, by the Licinian laws [LATERANUS]. The only other person in the gens who was consul under the republic was C. Sextius Calvinus, in B. C. 124 [CALVINUS] ; but the names of a few Sextii appear on the consular Fasti in the imperial period. Most of the Sextii are mentioned without any cognomen : they are given below. [SEXTIUS.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), The'mison (search)
The'mison 2. A tyrant of Eretria who in B. C. 366 assisted the exiles of Oropus in recovering possession of their native city. They succeeded in occupying it by surprise, but the Athenians having marched against them with their whole force, Themison was unable to cope with their power, and called in the Thebans to his assistance, who received possession of the city as a deposit, but afterwards refused to give it up. (Diod. 15.76; Xen. Hell. 7.4.1 ; Dem. de Cor. p. 259.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Timo'crates (search)
Timo'crates 6. A Syracusan, who commanded a squadron of twelve galleys, sent by Dionysius the Younger to the aid of Sparta in B. C. 366. The arrival of this force enabled the Spartans to reduce Sellasia, which had revolted from them. (Xen. Hell. 7.4.12.)
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Timo'machus (search)
Timo'machus （*Timo/maxos), an Athenian, of the demus of Acharnae. In B. C. 366, he commanded a body of Athenian troops, which, in conjunction with a Lacedaemonian force, had been appointed to guard the Isthmus of Corinth against the Thebans. But they neglected to occupy the passes of Oneium, and Epaminondas, who was preparing to invade Achaia, persuaded Peisias, the Argive general, to seize a commanding height of the mountain. The Thebans were thus enabled to make their way through the Isthmus (Xen. Hell. vii. 1.41; Diod. 15.75). Towards the end, apparently, of B. C. 361, Timomachus was sent out to take the command in Thrace, for which he seems to have been utterly unfit, and he failed quite as much at least as his immediate predecessors, Menon and Autocles, in forwarding the Athenian interests in that quarter. Not only were his military arrangements defective, but, according to the statement of Aeschines, it was through his culpable easiness of disposition that Hegesander, his trea
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