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]

References

↑ Xenophon, Anabasis v. 4. §§ 2, &c.
↑ Elder, Edward (1867), "Timasitheus (1)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 3, Boston, p. 1135

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