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Timagoras

Τιμαγόρας

(Τιμαγόρας), historical.

1. A Tegean, was one of the ambassadors who were sent, in B. C. 430, to ask the king of Persia to aid the Peloponnesians against Athens. On their way through Thrace they were seized by SADOCUS at the instigation of the Athenian envoys at the court of Sitalces, and, having been taken to Athens, were there put to death. (Thuc. 2.67.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.