and extolled by others as clear, nervous, and
elevated (Luebker and Pauly).

TIMAEUS, a native of Tauromenium in Sicily; born about 352 B.C. Being
driven out of Sicily by Agathokles, he lived a retired life for fifty
years in Athens, where he composed his History. Subsequently he returned
to Sicily, and died at the age of ninety-six in 256 B.C. His chief work
was a _History of Sicily_ from the earliest times down to the 129th
Olympiad. It numbered sixty-eight books, and consisted of two principal
divisions, whose limits cannot now be ascertained. In a separate work he
handled the campaigns of Pyrrhus, and also wrote _Olympionikae_,
probably dealing with chronological matters. Timaeus has been severely
criticised and harshly condemned by the ancients, especially by
Polybius, who denies him every faculty required by the historical writer
(xii. 3-15, 23-28). And though Cicero differs from this judgment, yet it
may be regarded as certain that Timaeus was better qualified for the
task of learned compilation than for historical research, and held no
distinguished place among the historians of Greece. His works have
perished, only a few fragments remaining (Luebker).

ZOILUS, a Greek rhetorician, native of Amphipolis in Macedonia, in the
time probably of Ptolemy Philadelphus (285-247 B.C.), who is said by
Vitruvius to have crucified him for his abuse of Homer. He won the name
of Homeromastix, "the scourge of Homer," and was also known as +kuon
rhetorikos+, "the dog of rhetoric," on account of his biting sarcasm;
and his name (as in the case of the English Dennis) came to be used to
signify in general a carping and malicious critic. Suidas mentions two
works of his, written with the object of injuring or destroying the fame
of Homer--(1) _Nine Books against Homer_; and (2) _Censures on Homer_
(Pauly).

[The facts contained in the above short notices are taken chiefly
from Luebker's _Reallexikon des classischen Alterthums_, and the
very copious and elaborate _Real-Encyclopaedie der classischen
Alterthumswissenschaft_, edited by Pauly. I have here to acknowledge
the kindness of Dr. Wollseiffen, Gymnasialdirektor in Crefeld, in
placing at my disposal the library of the Crefeld Gymnasium, but for
which these biographical notes, which were put together at the
suggestion of Mr. Lang, could not have been compiled.
CREFELD, _31st July 1890_.]

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