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To avoid which he immediately landed, and, leaving the ship, went up into the country a good way from the sea, having along with him only one friend, called Timanthes; and throwing themselves into some ground thickly covered with wood, they had but an ill night’s rest of it.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Suppose Timanthes the painter were at this day to come and present to us, by the side of the paintings in the Palais
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What, therefore, [6736] Timanthes did in his picture of
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Callias, and Timanor the son of Timanthes; the land forces by
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Like Timanthes of old, our artist expresses great passions without the aid of the human countenance.
George Cruikshank 2006
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Timanor, son of Timanthes; the troops under that of Archetimus, son of Eurytimus, and Isarchidas, son of Isarchus.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005
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He challenged him to show any portrait of these days that could vie with the Helen of Zeuxis, the Heraclean; or any composition equal to the Sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Timanthes, the
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Timanthes the painter made a picture of the battle, giving by his composition a most lively representation of it.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Timanthes, and several other masters who confined themselves to the use of four colours, we commend the air and the symmetry of their figures; but in
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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[103] An allusion to the celebrated picture of Timanthes.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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