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Timoleon ( Greek: Τιμολέων ), son of Timodemus, of Corinth ( c. 411 –337 BC) was a Greek statesman and general. As a brilliant general, a champion of Greece against Carthage, and a fighter against despotism, he is closely connected with the history of Sicily, especially Syracuse, Magna Graecia .
May 17, 2016 · Timoleon (c. 411 - c. 337 BCE) was a Corinthian statesman and general who famously defeated the tyrant of Syracuse Dionysius II and an army of Carthage against the odds.
Timoleon. (legendary, died 337 B.C.E.) By Plutarch. Written 75 A.C.E. Translated by John Dryden.
Timoleon of Corinth was a Greek statesman and general who championed the Greeks of Sicily against the rule of tyrants and against Carthage. When, in 344, aristocrats of Syracuse appealed to their mother city of Corinth against their tyrant Dionysius II, Timoleon was chosen to lead a liberation.
TIMOLEON. The life of Timoleon, one of the noblest and most interesting of the men of old Greece, is closely bound up with the history of Sicily ( q.v .), and more particularly of Syracuse ( q.v .), in the latter half of the 4th century B.C.
chapter: section: I began the writing of my ‘Lives’ for the sake of others, but I find that I am continuing the work and delighting in it now for my own sake also, using history as a mirror and endeavouring in a manner to fashion and adorn my life in conformity with the virtues therein depicted.
Timoleon (tĬmō´lēən), d. after 337 BC, Greek statesman and general, noted as the scourge of tyrants. A Corinthian, he went (344) with a small army to Syracuse in answer to the appeal of the Syracusans to their mother city, Corinth, for aid against Dionysius the Younger.
1. Timoleon Corinthius. sine dubio magnus omnium iudicio hic vir exstitit. namque huic uni contigit , quod nescio an nulli, ut et patriam, in qua erat natus , oppressam a tyranno liberaret, et a Syracusanis, quibus auxilio erat missus, iam inveteratam servitutem depelleret totamque Siciliam, multos annos bello vexatam a barbarisque oppressam ...
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics. Timoleon Corinthius. sine dubio magnus omnium iudicio hic vir exstitit. namque huic uni contigit , quod nescio an nulli, ut et patriam, in qua erat natus , oppressam a tyranno liberaret, et a Syracusanis, quibus auxilio erat missus, iam inveteratam servitutem ...
Life of Timoleon by Cornelius Nepos, translated by J.C. Rolfe.
