Tima'genes
1. Timagenes, the rhetorician (
ῥήτωρ), of Alexandria, the son of the king's banker, was taken prisoner by Gabinius (B. C. 55), and brought to Rome, where he was redeemed from captivity by Faustus, the son of Sulla.
He taught rhetoric at Rome in the time of Pompey, and afterwards under Augustus, but losing his school on account of his freedom of speech, he retired to an estate at Tusculum.
He died at Dabanum, a town of Osrhoene in Mesopotamia.
Works
He wrote many books, the titles of which are not given by Suidas.