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	Timoleon - LoveToKnow 1911
		Timoleon, being named by an unknown voice in the popular assembly, was chosen by a unanimous vote to undertake the mission, and set sail for Sicily with a few of the leading citizens of Corinth and a small troop of Greek mercenaries.
		The general himself led his infantry, and the enemy's discomfiture was completed by a blinding storm of rain and hail.
		Timoleon then retired into private life without assuming any title or office, though he remained practically supreme, not only at Syracuse, but throughout the island.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Timoleon (670 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1140 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Timoleon quickly followed, and besieged Messana so vigorously by sea and land, that Hippon, despairing of holding out, attempted to escape by sea, but was taken and put to death in the public theatre.
		Timoleon, however, was in reality the ruler of Sicily, for all the states consulted him on every matter of importance ; and the wisdom of his rule is attested by the flourishing condition of the island for several years even after his death.
		Timoleon certainly deserves to be regarded as one of the greatest men of Greece, and it is not the slightest eulogium paid to him, that Mitford, with all his prejudices against the destroyer of his favourite tyrants, is able to detract so little from the virtues and merits of Timoleon.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3474.html (969 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Our Young Folks' Plutarch by Rosalie Kaufman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Timoleon had only twelve hundred soldiers, but he advanced until he heard that Hicetes was approaching Adranum; then he pitched his camp before that place, and, without giving his army time for rest or refreshment, placed himself at their head and led them, as he told them, to victory.
		Timoleon was then at Catana, and Hicetes was determined to stop all further supply of provisions from that quarter; so he selected the best of his troops, and, with Mago to manage the ships, sailed from Syracuse.
		Timoleon called his first cavalry officer to his side and gave him orders to fall at once upon the enemy, while part remained on one side of the river and part on the other, and before they were drawn up in line of battle.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=kaufman&book=plutarch&story=timoleon (3187 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1139 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Timoleon saw that it was necessary to act with promptitude ; for hardly any of the Sicilian Greeks could be expected to join him till he had won their confidence and commanded their respect.
		Timoleon followed up his victory by marching against Syracuse, and before Hicetas could collect his troops, he succeeded in obtaining possession of two quarters of the city, Tyche and Epipolae.
		Hicetas, finding that he had to contend alone with Timoleon, first attempted to remove his rival by assassination, and, after the failure of this attempt, openly had recourse to the Carthaginians, and introduced Mago with his fleet and army into the port and city of Syracuse.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/3473.html (1060 words)

	Timoleon - The Friend of Fortune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Timoleon was horrified at what his brother was doing, and he tried talking him out of it.
		Timoleon called a halt and made a speech, telling the men that the gods had sent them their victory wreaths -- parsley was what was used to crown the victors in the Isthmian games at Corinth.
		Timoleon had hired them in Greece, and they had done him good service, but when they were no longer needed, Apollo paid them back for their sacrilege.
	www.e-classics.com /timoleon.htm (6045 words)

	Timoleon
		The impress of Timoleon's reforms seems to have lasted to the days of Augustus.
		With a miscellaneous levy of about 12,000 men, most of them mercenaries, Timoleon marched westwards across the island into the neighbourhood of Selinus'and won a great and decisive victory on the Crimissus.
		But it ended (338) in the defeat of Hicetas, who was taken prisoner and put to death; by a treaty the dominion of Carthage--in Sicily was confined to the west of the Halycus (Platani).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ti/Timoleon.html (658 words)

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		Timoleon, gladly embracing this unlooked-for advantage, sends away Euclides and Telemachus, two Corinthian captains, with four hundred men, for the seizure and custody of the castle, with directions to enter not all at once, or in open view, that being impracticable so long as the enemy kept guard, but by stealth, and in small companies.
		These letters from Timoleon being delivered at Corinth, and the ambassadors of Syracuse beseeching them at the same time that they would take upon them the care of their poor city, and once again become the founders of it, the Corinthians were not tempted by any feeling of cupidity to lay hold of the advantage.
		Not long after, Timoleon, marching up to the city of the Leontines, took Hicetes alive, and his son Eupolemus, and Euthymus, the commander of his horse, who were bound and brought to him by their own soldiers.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/timoleon.1b.txt (3729 words)

	Plutarch's Life of Timoleon
		Timoleon, however, reckoned it some kind of advantage, that these had thus discovered themselves before the battle, and, encouraging the rest, led them with all speed to the river Crimesus, where it was told him the Carthaginians were drawn together.
		Timoleon, therefore, having thus bespoke his soldiers, took part of the parsley, and with it made himself a chaplet first, his captains and their companies all following the example of their leader.
		The tent of Timoleon then presented a most glorious and magnificent appearance, being heaped up and hung round with every variety of spoils and military ornaments, among which there were a thousand breastplates of rare workmanship and beauty, and bucklers to the number of ten thousand.
	www.bostonleadershipbuilders.com /plutarch/timoleon.htm (4930 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Tales of the Greeks: The Children's Plutarch by F. J. Gould (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Timoleon put the foe to flight, he himself heading the Corinthians, and running forward with his buckler on his arm.
		Timoleon caused his foot-soldiers to draw close together, holding their bucklers in front, so as to make a kind of moving wall.
		He sent for his wife and children from Corinth, and they all dwelt in a country house, where he enjoyed the sweet air of the hills and the sight of harvests and flocks; but his chief happiness was to behold the safety and comfort of the Sicilians.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=gould&book=greeks&story=timoleon (1649 words)

	How did parsley 'win' a war? - Plants that Changed History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Timoleon [ti mol' ee on] served in the infantry and Timophanes [ti mof' a nees] in the cavalry.
		Timoleon ran to his brother's aid, shielding him until the two could be rescued from the fighting.
		Climbing a hill, Timoleon and his army met a mule train loaded with parsley; the army thought it was an ill-omen and wanted to flee.
	www.killerplants.com /plants-that-changed-history/20030128.asp (659 words)

	Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes \| Extracts \| Guardian Unlimited Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The pension was enough to keep him alive and the roof free of holes, and a trickle of royalties from music he had written or arranged kept him in diesel, wine, cigars and the occasional weekend away, and just about stretched to the upkeep of a mongrel.
		Timoleon Vieta was the fourth dog Cockroft had owned in the fifteen years he had been at the old stone farmhouse.
		Timoleon Vieta spent his days roaming around, and whenever he began to feel tired or hungry he returned to a big bowl of food, a comfortable armchair or patch of grass, warmth or shade depending on the weather, and the loving fuss of his first real owner.
	books.guardian.co.uk /extracts/story/0,6761,933203,00.html (2547 words)

	Comparison of Timoleon with Aemilius Paulus - Plutarch's Lives
		But Timoleon at the request and prayers of the Syracusans, was sent to be their general, and had no need to seek for power, but had a perfect title, founded on their own offers, to hold it; and yet no sooner had he freed Sicily from her oppressors, but he willingly surrendered it.
		I would not intend any reflection on Timoleon, for accepting of a house and handsome estate in the country, which the Syracusans presented him with; there is no dishonor in accepting; but yet there is greater glory in a refusal, and the supremest virtue is shown in not wanting what it might fairly take.
		But Timoleon, after he had justly punished his brother, a truly heroic action, let his reason yield to a causeless sorrow, and, humiliated with grief and remorse, forbore for twenty years to appear in any public place, or meddle with any affairs of the commonwealth.
	www.constitution.org /rom/plutarch/timoleon-aemiliuspaulus.htm (508 words)

	Timoleon - Plutarch's Lives - translated by John Dryden and revised by Arthur Hugh Clough, Book, etext
		Of this kind are those of Timoleon the Corinthian, and Paulus Æmilius, to write whose lives is my present business; men equally famous, not only for their virtues, but success; insomuch that they have left it doubtful whether they owe their greatest achievements to good fortune, or their own prudence and conduct.
		The grief, however, of Timoleon at what had been done, whether it arose from commiseration of his brother’s fate, or the reverence he bore his mother, so shattered and broke his spirits, that for the space of almost twenty years, he had not offered to concern himself in any honorable or public action.
		But the Carthaginians who were left in Rhegium perceiving, when the assembly was dissolved, that Timoleon had given them the go by, were not a little vexed to see themselves outwitted, much to the amusement of the Rhegians, who could not but smile to find Phœnicians complain of being cheated.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/P/Plutarch/prose/plutachslives/timoleon.html (3645 words)

	Sicily
		Timoleon's expeditionary force was made up from mercenaries who had gained experience in the Third Sacred War (in which Philip of Macedonia had more or less conquered Central Greece).
		Having accomplished his mission, Timoleon retired from public life as the second founder of the city, which restored its fortunes and wealth.
		Later generations were inspired, and already in 334 the king of Epirus, Alexander of Molossis (the brother-in-law of Alexander the Great) followed Timoleon's example and helped the Greeks of southern Italy ward off the native tribes.
	www.livius.org /sh-si/sicily/sicily05.html (1053 words)

	Ethics of Philip, Demosthenes, and Alexander by Sanderson Beck
		Timoleon then drove Hicetas out of Epipolae and Syracuse; the hated fortress of Ortygia was finally torn down, and courts for administering justice were erected in its place.
		Timoleon compelled Hicetas at Leontini to capitulate and become a private citizen, and the despot Leptines was removed from Apollonia.
		Timoleon retired from power and lived near Syracuse greatly honored and summoned for his judgment in difficult cases for two years before he went blind and died.
	www.san.beck.org /EC22-Alexander.html (14797 words)

	Society&Animal Forum - Society & Animals Journal
		Each vignette takes as its title names bestowed upon Timoleon: He is “Teg” to an English girl jilted by her Italian boyfriend; “Dusty” to a father presiding over the slow death of his beloved daughter; “Giuseppe, or Leonardo Da Vinci,” to a pair of doomed lovers.
		Thus, although Timoleon's consciousness is not at the forefront of the text, Timoleon Vieta is a dog's story--a “shaggy dog” story, in fact, because Timoleon's journey ends where it began and achieves nothing.
		Timoleon's journey thus suggests something essential about the nature of life, love, and the consolations of fiction.
	www.psyeta.org /sa/sa12.3/hicks.shtml (770 words)

	Timoleon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But Timoleon does not come onstage until he is needed...and that's what this first section is about, showing exactly why he is needed at this time in history.
		Timoleon’s army, and the Corinthians in general, are now in a perfect position to do whatever they want with Syracuse.
		At the beginning of Plutarch’s Life of Timoleon, Plutarch said that he saw the project of writing a life as receiving an honoured guest, and selecting from his actions “all that is noblest and worthiest to know.
	www.amblesideonline.org /Timoleon.shtml (4285 words)

	TIMOLEON (c. 411-337 B... - Online Information article about TIMOLEON (c. 411-337 B...
		Timoleon, after an ineffectual protest, tacitly acquiesced while the See also:
		But it ended (338) in the defeat of Hicetas, who was taken prisoner and put to death; by a treaty the dominion of Carthage in Sicily was confined to the See also:
		Not-withstanding the many elements of discord Sicily seems to have been during Timoleon's lifetime tranquil and contented.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /THE_TOO/TIMOLEON_c_411_337_BC_.html (916 words)

	A sneering kiss - www.theage.com.au
		As Timoleon Vieta makes his way home from Rome to the Villa Cockroft, he brings his special doggy love into the lives of a succession of abandoned, alienated and inadequate characters.
		There is the Welsh girl forsaken by the Italian cad who brought her to Italy and then, after some weeks, told her he was engaged; there is the Chinese girl who came to Italy when her mother married an elderly Italian professor, both now dead.
		Some of the juice, or bile, leaks out of the novel: some of the stories Timoleon Vieta wanders into are a bit scrappy and there is a parody of magical realism that is too long.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/09/03/1062548898667.html?from=storyrhs (696 words)

	"TIMOLEON", WHERE ARE YOU NOW ? by Nigel Longshaw
		The area relating to Timoleon was observed, not as a single large enclosure, but as a series of broken ridges, flooded craters and smaller well defined craters.
		Crater positions and feature interpretations are very often difficult to correlate between observations made on differing dates and moreso with different instruments, this is one of the pitfalls of visual observation, the ability to set down on paper accurate records of features over an extended period is the mark of a first class observer.
		From the observational data obtained by myself over a three year period it would seem that under certain illumination and libration conditions evidence for the existence of a walled plain in the position of "Timoleon" is compelling.
	www.mikeoates.org /mas/cn/timoleon (1406 words)

	Review: Timoleon Vieta Come Home
		Timoleon Vieta, a mongrel distinguished only by his extraordinarily beautiful eyes, lives with Carthusians Cockcroft (yes, I'll deal with that one as well), a formerly successful bandleader and composer of pop music for television and stage who is now living on a small pension and irregular royalties in a rundown farmhouse in Umbria.
		Timoleon Vieta immediately sets out to walk back to the farmhouse.
		It is right that Timoleon Vieta not be anthropomorphized; but the alternative is a main "character" with no inner life of any kind.
	www.howtoknow.com /TimoleonVieta.html (983 words)

	Dan Rhodes
		While putting the finishing touches to Timoleon Vieta Come Home, he had his status as the Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci of the book world confirmed when he was dropped by his publisher of the time, F*** E***.
		A tragicomedy heavy on the comedy, Timoleon Vieta is an extremely fresh and sensitive meditation on love lost and unresolved anger.
		Timoleon Vieta Come Home resembles Italo Calvino’s Difficult Loves and Alberto Moravia’s The Voice Of The Sea, and that’s saying something.
	www.danrhodes.co.uk /timoleon.html (552 words)

	The difference between dogs and men - Minnesota Daily
		Timoleon Vieta is Cockroft's dog, not because the old man purchased him as a puppy or rescued him from the pound, but because the dog had happened to show up at his deteriorating house.
		The focus on Timoleon Vieta makes sense, as it becomes clear that he is the only creature Cockroft has trusted since everything fell apart.
		Finally, "Timoleon Vieta Come Home" landed him on Granta's "Best of Young British Novelists" list, and he's been modestly downplaying the honor ever since, going so far as to state that the book would be his last novel.
	www.mndaily.com /articles/2003/09/11/46458 (874 words)

	Timoleon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Timoleon (Greek: Τιμολέων), son of Timodemus, of Corinth (c.
		But it ended (338) in the defeat of Hicetas, who was taken prisoner and put to death; by a treaty the dominion of Carthage—in Sicily was confined to the west of the Halycus (Platani).
		He was buried at the cost of the citizens of Syracuse, who erected a monument to his memory in their market-place, afterwards surrounded with porticoes, and a gymnasium called Timoleonteum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timoleon (795 words)

	Dan Rhodes \| Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey \| WGBH Forum Network \| Free Online Lectures
		Rattling around his dilapidated farmhouse in the Italian countryside, faded composer and socialite Cockroft has only one constant companion: Timoleon Vieta, a loyal mongrel with beautiful eyes.
		When a handsome but surly individual arrives on the scene, Cockroft is forced to choose between his dog and the new arrival.
		He abandons Timoleon outside Rome's Coliseum, where the dog begins a long journey home.
	forum.wgbh.org /wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=1633 (137 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Timoleon
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		The old town, on the small island of Ortygia, is connected by a bridge with the
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	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Timoleon (369 words)

	Boston
		His exploits on the race course, and later as the sire of the great stallion Lexington, mark him as one of the most important figures in racing in the 1800s.
		Timoleon, from whom Boston inherited his stride and action.
		Timoleon, one of the better racing sons of Sir Archy, was standing in Charles City County, Virginia.
	www.tbheritage.com /Portraits/Boston.html (1613 words)

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