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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 989 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIMOCREON , of Ialysus in See also:

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

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