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Timocles

3. Of Syracuse, a supposed author of one of the pretended works of Orpheus, namely, the Σωτήρια, which was also ascribed to Persinus of Miletus (Suid. s. v. Ὀρφεύς; Eudoc. p. 318). Nothing more is known of him. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 158; Meineke, vol. i. pp. 430, 431.)

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.