Timocrates

Family: Rhodes · Role: agent · First appears: Book 3 · Chapter 9

In Book 3, Chapter 9, Artaxerxes sent Timocrates, a native of Rhodes, into Greece with money to stir up war against the Lacedæmonians. The account says that among those who received his money were Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives; Androclides, Ismenias, and Amphithemis at Thebes; Cephalus and Epicrates among the Athenians; and Polyanthes and Timolaus among the Corinthians with Argive proclivities.

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Timocrates is sent with Persian money to foment war against the Lacedæmonians.(Book 3 · Chapter 9 · 📍 Greece)
- “So he sent Timocrates a native of Rhodes into Greece with money, bidding him stir up war against the Lacedæmonians in Greece.”

Book 3 · Chapter 9

with Cylon (Cylon received money from Timocrates.) “And those who received Timocrates’ money were it is said Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives, and at Thebes Androclides and Ismenias and Amphithemis: and the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates had a share, and the Corinthians with Argive proclivities as Polyanthes and Timolaus.”
with Sodamas (Sodamas received money from Timocrates.) “And those who received Timocrates’ money were it is said Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives, and at Thebes Androclides and Ismenias and Amphithemis: and the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates had a share, and the Corinthians with Argive proclivities as Polyanthes and Timolaus.”
with Androclides (Androclides received money from Timocrates.) “And those who received Timocrates’ money were it is said Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives, and at Thebes Androclides and Ismenias and Amphithemis: and the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates had a share, and the Corinthians with Argive proclivities as Polyanthes and Timolaus.”
with Ismenias (Ismenias received money from Timocrates.) “And those who received Timocrates’ money were it is said Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives, and at Thebes Androclides and Ismenias and Amphithemis: and the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates had a share, and the Corinthians with Argive proclivities as Polyanthes and Timolaus.”
with Amphithemis (Amphithemis received money from Timocrates.) “And those who received Timocrates’ money were it is said Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives, and at Thebes Androclides and Ismenias and Amphithemis: and the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates had a share, and the Corinthians with Argive proclivities as Polyanthes and Timolaus.”
with Cephalus (Cephalus received money from Timocrates.) “And those who received Timocrates’ money were it is said Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives, and at Thebes Androclides and Ismenias and Amphithemis: and the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates had a share, and the Corinthians with Argive proclivities as Polyanthes and Timolaus.”
with Epicrates (Epicrates received money from Timocrates.) “And those who received Timocrates’ money were it is said Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives, and at Thebes Androclides and Ismenias and Amphithemis: and the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates had a share, and the Corinthians with Argive proclivities as Polyanthes and Timolaus.”
with Polyanthes (Polyanthes received money from Timocrates.) “And those who received Timocrates’ money were it is said Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives, and at Thebes Androclides and Ismenias and Amphithemis: and the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates had a share, and the Corinthians with Argive proclivities as Polyanthes and Timolaus.”
with Timolaus (Timolaus received money from Timocrates.) “And those who received Timocrates’ money were it is said Cylon and Sodamas among the Argives, and at Thebes Androclides and Ismenias and Amphithemis: and the Athenians Cephalus and Epicrates had a share, and the Corinthians with Argive proclivities as Polyanthes and Timolaus.”
with Artaxerxes (sent as an agent to foment war) “So he sent Timocrates a native of Rhodes into Greece with money, bidding him stir up war against the Lacedæmonians in Greece”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.