Timótheus, The name of a noble Captayne of the Athenians, who for the good fortune that he had in battayle, was paynted lying a steepe, and hauing by him a net pitched, wherein fortune was taken. Also a cunning musitian, whiche vsed to take of his scholers, which had learned before, double salarie, that he tooke of other which had neuer learned: saying, that he tooke with them double labours, that is to saye, to make them to forget that which they had learned before, and then to teache them perfitely.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Tīmŏthĕus, ĕi, m., = *timo/qeos.I.Son of Conon, leader of the Athenians, and restorer of the walls of Athens; his life is written by Nepos; cf. also Cic. Off. 1, 32, 116; id. de Or. 3, 34, 139; id. Tusc. 5, 35, 100; Nep. Con. 1 sqq.—II.A musician, a native of Miletus, Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 39; Quint. 2, 3, 3; Macr. S. 5, 22.