The New International Encyclopædia/Timocreon

TIMO′CREON (Lat., from Gk. Σοφοκλῆς, Timokreōn). A Greek lyric poet of the early fifth century B.C., born at Ialysus, in Rhodes. His works are lost, but his name has survived through his hatred for Themistocles, whom he bitterly attacked. The statesman was defended, however, by his friend Simonides, whose sarcastic epigram on Timocreon's gluttony and bibulous habits has been preserved by Athenæus. Tradition says that Timocreon excelled in drinking songs, to which he gave a satiric tone. Fragments are in Bergk, Poetæ Lyrici Græci, vol. iii., 4th ed. (1887).