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• TIMON
• TIMON (c. 320-230)

TIMON (c. 320-230)  , of Phlius, See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek sceptic philosopher and satirical poet, a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

• STILPO [STILPON]

Stilpo the Megarian and Pyrrho of See also:

• ELIS
• ELIS, or ELEIA
• ELIS, PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOL OF

Elis . Having made a See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune by teaching and lecturing in See also:

• CHALCEDON
• CHALCEDON, COUNCIL OF

Chalcedon he spent the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

• LIFE

life chiefly at See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens, where he died . His writings (See also:

• DIOGENES

Diogenes Laertius, ix. ch . 1`2) were numerous both in See also:

• PROSE

prose and in See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse: besides the ZiXXo6, he is said to have written epic poems, tragedies, comedies and satyric dramas . But he is best known as the author of the ItXXot, three books of sarcastic See also:

• HEXAMETER

hexameter verses, written against the Greek philosophers . The fragments that remain (about 140 lines or parts of lines, printed in F . W . A . Mullach, Frag . Phil. graec. i . 84–98) show that See also:

• TIMON
• TIMON (c. 320-230)

Timon possessed some of the qualities of a See also:

• GREAT

great satirist, together with a command of the hexameter; but he had no loftier aim than to awaken See also:

• LAUGHTER

laughter . Philosophers are " excessively cunning murderers of many See also:

• WISE, HENRY ALEXANDER (1806-1876)
• WISE, ISAAC MAYER (1819-1900)

wise saws " (v .

96) ; the only two whom he spares are See also:

• XENOPHANES

Xenophanes, " the modest See also:

• CENSOR (from Lat. censere, assess, estimate; in Gr. rt s ris)

censor of See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer's lies " (v . 29), and Pyrrho, against whom " no other mortal dare contend " (v . 126) . Besides the zixXoi we have some lines preserved from the 'Js&tAFcof, a poem in elegiac verse, which appears to have inculcated the tenets of See also:

• SCEPTICISM (o-Kesrroµai, I consider, reflect, hesitate, doubt)

scepticism, and one or two fragments which cannot be with certainty assigned to either poem . There is a reference to Timon in Ells . Freels, . Ev. xiv . (Eng. trans. by E . H . See also:

• GIFFORD, ROBERT SWAIN (184o—19o5)
• GIFFORD, SANDFORD ROBINSON (1823–188o)
• GIFFORD, WILLIAM (1756-1826)

Gifford, 1903, p . 761) . Fragments of his poems have been collected by Wilke, De graecorur syllis (See also:

• WARSAW
• WARSAW (Polish Warszawa, Ger. Warschau, Fr. Varsovie)

Warsaw, 1820), See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul, Dissertatio de syllis (See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin, 182x), and See also:

• WACHSMUTH, CHARLES (1829-1896)

Wachsmuth, Sillographorum graec. religuiae (See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1885) .