emperor’s deeds (Sen. ibid.). Timagene ̄s then moved to live with the Roman historian C.
Asinius Pollio. Later he traveled a bit and died in Albania, having written many books. Solid
information exists only regarding a work on kings and a universal history; the Souda (T-589)
ascribes to him also a periplous of the sea in five books. Euagoras of Lindos composed a
now lost biography.
Ed.: FGrHist 88.
M. Sordi, “Timagene di Alessandria: uno storico ellenocentrico e filobarbaro,” ANRW 2.30.1 (1982)
775 – 797.
Daniela Dueck
Timage ̄tos (ca 400 – 350 BCE?)
Wrote a periplous entitled On Harbors, preserved in the scholia on Apollo ̄nios of Rhodes
and in S B. He described a river rising among the Celts, flowing
into a lake (probably Lake Geneva), and thence bifurcating into the Rhône and the Istros
(Danube). For the name cf. LGPN 3A.427, of Argos (3rd c. BCE).
NP 12/1.573–574, H.A. Gärtner.
PTK
Timagoras (ca 200 – 100 BCE)
Epicurean philosopher who disagreed with some of the teachings of the school, especially
on the topic of sense perception (C, Lucullus 80). If, as seems likely, he is identical to
the Epicurean whose name is given as Timasagoras in P’ On Anger, he and
another Epicurean Nikasikrate ̄s maintained, against the more orthodox Epicurean view,
that anger was to be completely avoided in all its forms.
RE 6A.1 (1936) 1073–1074 (#5) – cf. Timasagoras: 17.1 (1936) 281–283 (s.v. Nikasikrate ̄s),
R. Philippson; NP 12/1.582 (Timasagoras), T. Dorandi.
Walter G. Englert
Timaios (Astrol.) (75 BCE – 79 CE)
Astrological doctrines are ascribed to Timaios by V V, commenting on the
obscure vocabulary (Anthologiai 9.1), and in isolated chapters of the great Byzantine astro-
logical anthologies. That Timaios discussed less conventional topics in his lost works is
suggested by P’s references to “Timaeus mathematicus” as an authority on the
influence of Scorpio causing leaves to fall off trees in autumn, on the causes of the Nile
flood, and on the limits of Venus’ elongation from the Sun (2.38, 5.55, and 16.82).
RE 6A.1 (1936) 1228 (#9), W. Kroll.
Alexander Jones
Timaios (Pharm.) (250 BCE – 25 CE)
Wrote Mineral Drugs, cited as a foreign authority on metals after I and before
H (P 1.ind.33). C preserves his remedy for a burning sensation of the
skin (ignis sacer) and cancer, compounded of myrrh, frankincense, khalkanthon, realgar, orpi-
ment, copper scales, oak galls and roasted psimuthion, applied dry or with honey (5.22.6).
Fabricius (1726) 438.
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TIMAGE ̄TOS