TIMOCREON  , of Ialysus in

Rhodes, Greek lyric poet, flourished about 48o B.C . During the Persian wars he had been banished on suspicion of " medism." Themistocles had promised to procure his recall, but was unable to resist the bribes of Timo•-creon's adversaries and allowed him to remain in exile . Timocrews thereupon attacked him most bitterly (see Plutarch, Themistocles, 21); and Simonides, the friend of Themistocles, retorted in an epigram (Anth . Pal. vii . 348) . Timocreon was also known as a composer of scolia (drinking-songs) and, according to Suidas, wrote plays in the style of the old comedy . His gluttony and drunkenness were notorious, and he was an athlete of great prowess .