Timasitheus of Trapezus

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Timasitheus or Timesitheus (Gr. Τιμασίθεος or Τιμησίθεος, fl. 4th century BC) was a citizen of Trapezus, and a proxenus of the Mossynoeci, between whom and the Cyrean Greeks he acted as interpreter, when the latter wished to make a treaty with the bar­barians, and to obtain a passage through their country.[1][2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Xenophon, Anabasis v. 4. §§ 2, &c.
  2. ^ Elder, Edward (1867), “Timasitheus (1)”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 3, Boston, pp. 1135 

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