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sect of the Agnoetae, who were so called from their In B. c. 481 he was Archon Eponymus. The
asserting that Christ's knowledge was not perfect. chronology of the early part of the life of Themis-
The little that is known of him is not worth men- tocles is uncertain. It was perhaps before his
tioning here. (See Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. archonship, or it may have been in that year that
794. )
[P. S. ] he persuaded the Athenians to employ the produce
THEMISTO (EULOT“). 1. A daughter of of the silver mines of Laurium in building ships,
Nereus and Doris. (Hes. Theog. 261. )
instead of distributing it among the Athenian
2. A daughter of the Lapithe Hypseus, and the citizens. (Herod. vii. 144 ; Plut. Themist. c. 4. ) The
wife of Athamas. (Apollod. i. 9. § 2; Athen. xiii. motive which he suggested was that the fleet of
p. 560 ; comp. ATHAMAS. )
Athens should be made a match for that of Aegina,
3. The mother of Arcas, who is commonly called with which state Athens was then at war ; but his
Callisto, and by some Megisto. (Steph. Byz. s. v. real object was to prepare Athens against a future
'Apras ; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 300; Hygin. Poet. attack from the Persians. It was the policy of
Astr. ii. 1. )
Themistocles to draw the Athenians to the sea, as
4. Of Cyprus, was said by some to be the he was convinced that it was only by their fleet
mother of Homer. (Paus. x. 24. $ 3. ) [L. S. ] that Athens could repel the Persians and obtain
THEMISTOCLEIA. [ARISTOCLEIA. ] the supremacy in Greece. The number of ships
THEMI'STOCLES (DEULOTOKAŤ), was the son which were built at the suggestion of Themistocles
of Neocles, not one of the most distinguished among was two hundred, according to Herodotus; and
the Athenians, though he was allied to the Lyco- they were not employed against Aegina,' with
medae. The name of his mother was Abrotonon, a which state Athens made peace, but against the
Thracian woman, according to some authors, but | Persians ; and thus, as Plutarch remarks, the policy
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of Themistocles saved Greece. Either at this time wooden walls, and Themistocles, who may havo
or somewhat later he persuaded the Athenians to suggested the answer of the oracle, also gave it an
pass a decree that twenty new ships should be interpretation, saying that they must take refuge
built every year.
in their fleets Accordingly he recommended that
When news arrived of the immense armament Athens should be left to the care of its tutelary
of Xerxes, the Athenians deliberated about choosing deity, and that the women, children, and infirm
a commander. Themistocles had no rival at Athens persons should be removed to Salamis, A egina, and
except Epicydes, who was strong with his tongue, Troezen, which was done. The people of Troezen
but weak in spirit. Themistocles, fearing that received most hospitably the fugitives, and provided
matters would go ill if this incompetent man was for their maintenance at the public expense. The
elected commander-in-chief, bought off his opposition united flect of the Greeks was now assembled at
and was elected himself (Plut. Themist. 6). There Salamis, consisting both ships from Artemisiuin
can be no doubt that Themistocles was ambitious to and the navy which was stationed at Troezen ; in
have the command, and his ambition was justified all threc hundred and seventy eight ships, besides
by his talents. A body of men was sent by sca to penteconters (Herod. viii. 48). In the mean tiine
Alus in Achaea, whence they marched to the pass the Persian army advanced through Boeotin, and
of Tempc, under the command of Themistocles and entered Attica, destroying all before them. Athens
Euaenetos, a Spartan, to make a stand against the also was occupied by them, and the Acropolis was
army of Xerxes ; but after a few days this force burnt. The Greek confederates assembled at Sa-
retreated to their ships in alarm before Xerxes had lamis were alarmed, and many of them were
crossed over to Europe from Abydos (Herod. vii. preparing to escape in their vessels. In this
173 ; Plut. Themist. 7). The Thessalians being thus emergency Mnesiphilus, a friend of Themistocles,
deserted, joined the Persians, and all Greece as far hearing from him that the Greeks had resolved in
south as Boeotia also went over to them. Upon council to withdraw to the Isthmus, and fight a
this the Greek confederates held a council at the naval battle there, urged him to prevent so fatal a
isthmus of Corinth, in which it was resolved to step, and to induce Eurybiades to stay. Themis-
make a stand against the Persians at Thermopylae, tocles, who was of the same opinion as Mnesiphilus,
and to send the fleet to Artemisium on the north- prevailed on Eurybiades to hold a fresh council of
west coast of Euboca, where it could watch the war, in which Themistocles showed the conse-
operations of the forces at Thermopylae. Themis- quences of the intended movement. Adimantus
tocles showed his magnanimity by offering to serve the Corinthian insolently told Themistocles to be
under Eurybiades, the Spartan, though the Athe- silent, and said that a man who had no city ought
nians furnished a greater number of ships than the not to speak in the council. Themistocles rated
Spartans. The Persian fleet sustained great loss him soundly and his countrymen of Corinth too ;
on the coast of Thessaly from bad weather (Herod. and added, that the Athenians had a larger country
vii. 190), but at last it reached Aphetae. Eury- and city than the Corinthians, inasmuch as they
biades being alarmed at the approach of this great had two hundred vessels, and that no Greek stale
force meditated a retreat to Southern Greece (He-could resist such a force if attacked by it. Then
rod. viii. 4; Plut. Themist. 7); but the Euboeans, turning to Eurybiades, he told him that if he did
who were afraid of being deserted at this critical not stay there, he would cause the ruin of Greece,
time, before they should be able to put their women for that all the power of the Greeks was in their
and children in a place of safety, gave Themistocles fleet ; and that if they would not fight at Salamis,
thirty talents, part of which he gave to Eurybiades the Athenians would sail off to Italy, and the
and to Adimantus, the Corinthian commander, and Greeks being left alone would then remember what
thus induced them to stay and hazard a battle. he had said. Eurybiades at last yielded, and it
The Greeks had the advantage in the naval engage- was determined to stay at Salamis.
ments off Artemisium, and the Persian fleet was On the arrival of the huge armament of Xerxes,
damaged by another storm ; but the Greek fleet consisting of twelve hundred vessels, in the Saronic
also suffered in the battle, and half of the Athenian gulf, the fears of the Greeks were renewed, and a
ships were disabled (Herod. viii. 18). The fights fresh council was held, in which it was proposed
off Artemisium took place on the same days on by the rest of the Greeks to sail off to the Pelo.
which Leonidas and his little band fought with the ponnesus, while the Athenians, Aeginetae, and
Persians at Thermopylae. The Greek fleet retired people of Megaris, still urged that they should keep
to Salamis opposite the south-western coast of their position (Herod. viii. 74). Themistocles,
Attica. Before leaving Artemisium Themistocles however, frustrated the plan of the dissentient
cut on the rocks and on pieces of stone an address Greeks. He sent a faith slave, named Sicinnus,
to the Ionians, who were in the fleet of Xerxes, in a boat to the Persian commanders, with a mes-
hoping that either the lonians might be detached sage to this effect : that the Athenian commander,
from the cause of Xerxes, if what he had written without the knowledge of the other commanders,
should not become known to the king, or that if inasmuch as he wished success to the king's cause,
the king should be informed of what was written, had sent him to say that the Greeks were alarmned,
he might suspect the fidelity of the Ionians and and intended to make their escape, and that the
not let them engage in the sea-fights. (Herod. viii. Persians had now the opportunity of accomplishing
22. )
a noble enterprise, if they would only cut off the
It was the plan of the Peloponnesians to retire retreat of the Greeks. The Persians believed what
within the peninsula, and to build a wall across the they were told, and took their measures accordingly.
isthmus, and the fleet had withdrawn to Salamis only They landed a large force on Psyttaleia, a little
at the entreaty of the Athenians to allow them island in the channel which separates Salamis from
time to remove their women and children from the Attic coast, and about midnight the Persian
Attica An answer of the oracle of Delphi had fleet occupied the whole of the channel between
advised the Athenians to defend themselves with | Salamis and the mainland as far as Munychia,
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and thus the Greeks were hemmed in. (Herod. viii. victory of Salamis, however, which was due to
76. )
Themistocles, established his reputation among the
The Greek commanders were disputing in coun- Greeks; and it was only jealousy among the com-
cil, not yet being aware that their retreat was cut manders which caused him to receive at the Isth.
off. Aristides, who was still in exile, crossed over mus the second prize of merit instead of the first
from Aegina to Salamis, and sending for Themis- (Herod. viii. 123. ) But on his visiting Sparta, he
tocles out of the council, told him that it was use- was received with extraordinary honours by the
less to discuss the matter of retrcat any longer, for Spartans, who gave Eurybiades the palm of bra-
he had seen the enemy's fcet, and the Greeks very, and to Themistocles the palm of wisdom and
were completely blockaded. Themistocles commu- skill, with a crown of olive, and the best chariot
nicated to Aristides what he had done to bring that Sparta possessed. When he returned home,
this about, and asked him to inform the council of three hundred select Spartan horsemen accompanied
what he had seen. Though Aristides assured the him as far as the borders of Tegea. (Herod. viii.
council that retreat was now impossible, and urged 124 ; Plut Themist. 17. )
them to prepare for battle, many of the commanders In the battle of Plataea, B. C. 479, in which
would not believe the intelligence until it was Mardonius was defeated, Aristides, now no longer
confirmed by a Tenian galley which had deserted an exile, commanded the Athenians. (Herod. viii.
from the Persians. In the morning the battle 28; Plut. Arist. 11. ) The name of Themistocles is
took place, in which the Greeks had the advantage not mentioned on this occasion by Herodotus or by
of their position over the Persian feet, which was Plutarch ; nor on the occasion of the fight at My-
crowded in too narrow a space. The battle was cale, which took place on the same day. Neither
fought chiefly in the eastern strait. The Greeks does it appear clearly what he was doing all this
gained a signal victory, in which the Acginetae time, except so far as may be collected from Plu-
most distinguished themselves, and next to them tarch's vague narrative. (Plut. Themist. 18. ) It
the Athenians. Aristides did good service by seems probable that his political influence declined
landing on Psyttaleia with some soldiers from Sa- very speedily after the affair which raised his re-
lamis, and cutting to pieces the Persians who were putation to the greatest height; and that his con-
on this islet. Xerxes, who watched the battle duct to the Spartans on two several occasions con-
from the shore of the mainland, saw his mighty tributed to his final downfal.
armament defeated and dispersed in the autumn The Athenians began to restore their ruined city
of B. c. 480. The fleet of the Persians was pur- after the barbarians had left the country, and The-
sued by the Grecks as far as Andros, and as they mistocles advised them to rebuild the walls, and to
did not come np with it there, a council was held, make them stronger than before. The Spartans sent
in which Themistocles advised that they should an embassy to Athens to dissuade them from forti-
pursue the enemy through the Aegean, and sail to fying their city, for which we can assign no motive,
the Hellespont to destroy the bridge of boats by except a miserable jealousy. Themistocles, accord-
which Xers had passed over. Eurybiades more ing to Theopompus, quoted by Plutarch, got over
prudently suggested that they should allow the this opposition by bribing the Ephori, which is
immense army of Xerxes to move off as quick as probable enongh, and not inconsistent with the
they could, and should leave the bridge standing; story told circumstantially by Thucydides of his
and this advice was approved by the other Pelo- deceiving the Spartans. He prevailed on the Athe-
ponnesian commanders. (Herod. viii. 107; com- nians to dismiss the Spartan ambassadors, and to
pare Plut. Aristid. 9, Themist. 16. ) Themisto- send him and others to Sparta on the matter of
cles pacified the Athenians, who were most eager the fortifications. Themistocles went first, after
to follow the Persians, by urging plausible argu- advising the Athenians not to send his colleagues
ments against the pursuit at present, and saying till the walls were far enough advanced to be in a
that in the following spring they might sail to the state of defence. In the mean time he amused
Hellespont and to Ionia. Herodotus attributes to the Spartans with lies, and pretended that he was
Themistocles a treacherous motive in the affair, waiting for his colleagues in order to be enabled to
and says that his object was to secure a retreat to enter on the business on which he was sent; and
Persia, if any thing should befil him at Athens when the report of the progress of the walls was
(llerod. viii. 109); and accordingly he sent some confirmed by fresh intelligence, Themistocles told
confidential persons to Xerxes, and among them the Spartans to send trusty persons to Athens
the faithful Sicinnus, to tell him that Themistocles to inquire, and not to trust to rumours. The
had prevented the Greeks from pursuing the Per- Spartans despatched their agents, and Themistocles
sian fleet, and destroying the bridge over the Held at the same time sent instructions to Athens, to
lespont, and he advised the king to inove off. detain the Spartans until he and his colleagues
Xerxes retreated with his army, and loft Mardo should return safety, for his colleagues had now
nius with a large force behind him.
| joined him. When he was informed that the
While the Greek Aeet was among the islands walls of Athens were in a fit state for defence, he
of the Aegean, Themistocles attempted to levy came before the Spartans, and told them plainly
contributions on the islanders. The people of An- that Athens could now protect herself. The Spar.
dros were called upon to pay money in the name tans dissembled their resentment, and the ambas-
of two powerful deities, Persuasion and Necessity, sadors respectively returned froin Athens and
but they answered, as other people may answer Sparta. (Thucyd. i. 90, &c. ) It was also on
to the collector of imposts, that they possessed two the advice of Themistocles that the Athenians
invincible antagonist deities, Poverty and Want of finished the fortifications of the port of Peiraeeus,
means, whose powerlessness no power could van- which they had commenced during his archonship
quish. Themistocles, however, got money from (Thucyd. i. 93; Diod. xi. 41); the position was
the Carystians and Parians (Herod. viii. lll, exceedingly favourable, possessing three natural
&c.
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naval power, the improvement of their ports would to surrender him to the Lacedaemonian and Athe-
contribute to the increase of it. For Themistocles nian agents. He also sent him to Pydna on the
was the first who declared that the Athenians must coast of the Aegean, where Themistocles found a
make the sea their element, and he took the first merchant vessel bound for Ionia The vessel was
steps towards this object. His policy was not to carried by the weather close to the Athenian ar-
let the fortune of the Athenians depend on the mament, which was blockading Naxos, on which
fate of their city Athens ; but if they were ever Themistocles discovered himself to the master, and
hard pressed, his advice was that they should Icave told him, that if he did not carry him off safely,
it for the Peiraeeus, which he designed to make so he would inform the Athenians that he was aiding
strong that a few men could defend it, while the him to escape for a sum of money. The master
rest could embark in the fleet. The building of kept his vessel tossing off the island a whole day
the walls which connected Athens with Peiraeeus and night to avoid the risk of landing, and at last
and Phalerum was later, and accomplished about safely reached Ephesus. Themistocles, who re-
B. C. 456. (Thucyd. i. 107. )
ceived money from his friends at Athens, and froni
The influence of Themistocles does not appear Argos, where he had money, rewarded the master
to have survived the expulsion of the Persians for his pains.
from Greece and the fortification of the ports. le Xerxes was now dead (B. C. 465), and Arta-
was probably justly accused of enriching himself xerxes was on the throne. Themistocles went up
by unfair means, for he had no scruples about to visit the king at his royal residence, in company
the way of accomplishing an end. A story is with a Persian, and on his arrival he sent the king
told by Plutarch in his Lives of Aristides and a letter, in which he told him that he had done
Themistocles, that after the retreat of the fleet the greatest damage to the cause of the king's
of Xerxes, when the Greek fleet was wintering at father, when out of necessity he fought against
Pagasae, Themistocles told the Athenians in the him, but that he had done him still greater ser-
public assembly that he had a scheme to propose vices, by which he meant his information as to the
which was beneficial to the state, but could not be intended retreat of the Greeks from Salamis, and
expounded to the many. Aristides was named to the not breaking down the bridge over the Hel.
receive the secret, and to report upon it. His re- lespont, the merit of which he falsely claimed; he
port was that nothing could be more profitable than said that he could do the king good service, and
the scheme of Themistocles, but nothing more un- that his life was sought by the Greeks on account
just ; and the Athenians abided by the report of of his friendship to the king; he prayed that he
Aristides. His project was to burn the Greek might be allowed to wait a year, and then to ex-
fleet, and thus contirm the naval supremacy of plain personally what brought him there. The-
Athens. Themistocles resisted the proposal of the mistocles was too cunning to entrust bis business
Lacedaemonians exclude from the Amphictyonic to interpreter. In a year he made himself
assembly those states which had not aided the master of the Persian language and the Persian
Greeks against Xerxes, for such a measure, he usages, and, being presented to the king, he ob-
argued, would put the whole power of the Am- tained the greatest influence over him, and such
phictyonic federation in the hands of two or three as no Greek ever before enjoyed; partly owing to
of the chief states. He succeeded in defeating this the high reputation and the hopes that he gave to
scheme, and thus incurred the enmity of the Spar- the king of subjecting the Greeks to the Persians.
tans, who supported his rival Cimon. (Plut. The The king gave him a handsome allowance, after
mist. 20. ) If this affair took place soon after the the Persian fashion ; Magnesia supplied him with
battle of Salamis, it will help to account for the bread nominally, but paid him annually fifiy ta-
disappearance of Themistocles from the stage. In lents. Lampsacus supplied wine, and Myus the
B. c. 471 he was ostracised from Athens, and re- other provisions. Before he could accomplish any
tired to Argos. He had now leisure to think of thing he died; some say that he poisoned himself
,
the old gallies and his father's lessons.
finding that he could not perform his promise to
Pausanias, being detected in a treacherous cor- the king. A monument was erected to his memory
respondence with the Persian king, lost his life, in the Agora of Magnesia, which place was within
and the Lacedaemonians sent persons to Athens to his government. It is said that his bones were
accuse Themistocles of being privy to the designs secretly taken to Attica by his relations, and pri-
of Pausanias. (Thucyd. i. 135; Plut. Themist. 23. ) vately interred there. Themistocles was, according
· The Athenians, either convinced of his guilt or af- to Plutarch, sixty-five years of age when he died,
fecting to be convinced, sent off persons with the La- and if he was born B. c. 514, he died in B. C. 449.
cedaemonians with instructions to arrest-Themisto He left several sons and daughters. The descend-
cles wherever they should find him. (B. c. 466. ) But ants of Themistocles enjoyed certain honours in
Themistocles, hearing of what was designed against Magnesia in Plutarch's time. A tomb called that
him, led from Argos to Corcyra, the inhabitants of of Themistocles existed in the Peiraeeus in the time
which owed him some obligations; but as the Cor- of Pausanias (i. I): Pausanias mentions also a
cyraeans were afraid to keep him for fear of incur- portrait of Themistocles in the Parthenon: he
ring the hostility of Athens and Sparta, they took says, it appears that the sons of Themistocles re-
Themistocles across to the main land. Being fol turned to Athens, and dedicated the painting in
lowed by his pursuers, he took refuge in the house the Parthenon in which Themistocles was repre-
of Admetus, king of the Molossi, who happened to sented: it was probaby an historical piece, in which
be from home. Admetus was no friend to The Themistocles appeared as an actor. (Compare
mistocles, but his wife, at the entreaty of the fugi- | Pans. i. 26 and 37. )
tive, told him that he would be protected if he The great abilities of Themistocles are thus
would take their child in his arms, and sit on the briefly characterised by Thucydides (i. 138):
hearth. The king soon came in, and respecting" Themistocles was the strongest example of the
his suppliannt attitude, raised him up, and refused | power of natural talent, and in this respect is par.
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ticularly worthy of admiration ; for by his natural THE'OCLES (foranis), the son of Hegslus,
understanding, without any education originally was a Lacedaemonian statuary, and one of the
to form it, or afterwards to strengthen it, he had disciples of Dipoenus and Scyllis. He therefore
the best judgment in actual circumstances, and he flourished about 8. c. 550. He wrought in wood
formed his judgment with the least deliberation ; and in ivory and gold. Two of his works are ap-
and as to future events he made, in the general, parently mentioned by Pausanias ; but they were
the best conjectures ; whatever he took in hand, only separate parts of one and the same group,
he was also able to expound ; and on matters representing Hercules preparing to carry off the
where he had no experience, he was not unable to golden apples of the Hesperides. This group con-
form a competent judgment; and both of the better sisted of a celestial hemisphere (Tolos, see Dict.
and the worse, while it was still in uncertainty, he of Antiq. s. v. 2d ed. ) upheld by Atlas, with her.
had a most excellent foresight; and to express all cules, and the tree which bore the golden apples of
in brief, by the force of his natural capacity, and the Hesperides, and the dragon coiled around the
the quickness of his determination, he was the tree, all carved out of cedar wood. An inscription
most efficient of all men in promptly deciding what on the roos stated that the work was executed
was to be done. ” Undoubtedly he possessed great by Theocles and his son. It stood at Olympia, in
talents as a statesman, great political sagacity, a the treasury of the Epidamnians ; but, in the time
ready wit, and excellent judgment: but perhaps of Pausanias, the figures of the Hesperides had
he was not an honest man ; and, like many other been removed from it by the Eleians, and placed
clever men with little morality, he ended his career in the temple of Hera. (Paus. vi. 19. § 5. 6. 8. )
unhappily and ingloriously, an exile and a traitor In his description of the temple of Hera (v. 17.
too. Some of the anecdotes about him deserves 1), Pausanias mentions these statues, five in
little credit ; but an examination of them belongs number, as being of gold and ivory, which is not
to another kind of work.
inconsistent with the other statement, that they
There is a life of Themistocles in the collection were of cedar-wood; for the two accounts can
which goes under the name of Nepos. Plutarch easily be reconciled by supposing that they were
has enlivened his biography with several curious of cedar-wood gilt, and the faces, hands, and feet
stories about Themistocles, after his arrival in Asia. covered with plates of ivory. Possibly the ivory
Diodorus (xi. ), always a careless writer, is of may have been added to the statues when they
little value for the biography of Themistocles. were transferred to the temple of Hera.
[P. S. )
One and twenty letters attributed to Themistocles THEOCLIUS, a Greek writer of the lives of
are spurious.
[G. L. ) the Caesars, appears to have lived in the time of
THEMISTO'GENES (OEMLoToyévns), of Sy. Aurelian or shortly afterwards. (Vopisc. Aurel.
racuse, is said by Xenophon (Hell
. iii. 1. $ 2) to 6. )
have written a work on the Anabasis of Cyrus ; THEOCLY'MENUS (Ocokúuevos). 1. A son
but most modern writers, following the statement of Polypheides of Hyperasia, and a descendant of
of Plutarch (de Gloria Athen. p. 361), suppose that Melampus, was a soothsayer, who, in consequence
Xenophon really refers to his own work, to which of a murder, was obliged to take to flight, and
he prefixed the name of Themistogenes. It appears, came to Telemachus at the time when the latter
however, that Themistogenes is not a fictitious quitted Sparta to return to Ithaca. (Hom. Od. xv.
name, since Suidas says (s. v. ) that he wrote other | 256, &c. , 507, &c. , xvii. 151, &c. , xx. 350, &c. )
works. (C. Müller, Fragm. Historic. Graec. vol. 2. A son of Proteus. (Eurip. Helen. 9. ) [L. S. ]
ii. p. 74, Paris, 1848. )
THEOCOSMUS (Ocokoo uos), of Megara, a
THEMISTUS, the son-in-law of Gelon, was statuary, whose time is accurately defined by two
slain along with Andranodorus. (Liv. xxiv. 24, statements in Pausanias. In the temple of Zeus
25. ) [ANDRANODORUR. )
Olympius at Megara, the traveller saw an un-
THEOCHRESTUS (cóxonotos), of Cyrene, finished chryselephantine statue of the god, which
grandfather and grandson, won a victory at the Theocosmus had undertaken to make, with the
Olympic games in the chariot-race, but in what assistance of Pheidias, but the execution of which
Olympiad is not stated (Paus. vi. 12. $ 7). A was interrupted by the breaking out of the Pelo-
person of the same name is quoted by the Scholiast ponnesian War, and the consequent incursions of
on Apollonius Rhodius (iv. 1750) as the author of the Athenians into the Megarensian territory.
a work on Libya ; and from the subject of the The face alone was of ivory and gold, and the rest
book we may reasonably inier that he was a native of the statue of mud (or plastic clay) and gypsum ;
of Africa, and may have been the same as one of and behind the temple there lay some half-wrought
the Olympic victors. Pliny also refers to Theo- logs of wood, which Theocosmus had intended to
chrestus as one of his authorities. (H. N. Index, cover with ivory and gold, and to use in com-
lib. xxxvii. and xxxvii. 2. s. 11. § 1. )
pleting the statue. Above the head of the god
THEOCLEIA. [ARISTOCLEI. . . ]
were the Hours and the Fates (Paus. i. 40. 8 3. 8. 4).
THE’OCLES (cokañs). 1. A Pythagorean Theocosmus also made the statue of Lysander's
philosopher. (Iamblich. Vit. Pyth. 27. )
pilot, Hermon, which formed a portion of the
2. Of Naxos or Eretria, a poet of unknown time, great votive offering dedicated by the Lacedaemo-
to whom some ascribed the invention of the elegiac nians at Delphi, out of the spoils of the battle of
metre ; but there can be little doubt that the tra- | Aegospotami (Paus. x. 9. § 4. 8. 8).