Timolaus
2. A Greek writer, a native of Larissa, and a disciple of Anaximenes of Lampsacus. He exercised his ingenuity by producing an Iliad, in which each line of Homer was followed by one of his own; thus: --
μῆνιν ἂειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος
ἣν ἔθετο Χρύσου κεχολώμενος εἵνεκα κούρης,
οὐλομένην ἣ μύρἰ Ἀχαιοῖς ἄλγεʼ ἔθηκε
μαρναμένοις ὅτε Τρωσὶν ἄτερ πολέμιζον ἄνακτος,
πολλὰς δʼ ἰφθίμους ψυχὰς Ἀΐδι προΐαψεν
Ἓκτορος ἐν παλάμῃσι δαϊζομένων ὑπὸ δουρί.
(Suidas, s.v. Eustath. Praef. in Od. p. 4.) Comp. PIGRES.
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.