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Timoxenus

Τιμόξενος

(Τιμόξενος).

1. The commander of the troops of Scione, attempted to betray Potidaea to the Persians in B. C. 480, but his treachery was discovered. (Hdt. 8.128; Polyaen. 7.33.1; Aeneas Tact. Poliorcet. p. 31.)

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.