Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Timotheus (2.)

TIMOTHEUS, a celebrated Greek musician and poet, was a native of Miletus, and died, according to the Parian marble, in 357 or 356, at the age of ninety. He added one or more strings (the number is uncertain) to the lyre, whereby he incurred the displeasure of the conservative Spartans. The few fragments of his poems are collected by Bergk in his Poetæ Lyrici Græci.