=Timon=, the Man-hater, an Athenian, who lived in the time of the Peloponnesian war. Shakespeare has a drama so called (1609). The drama begins with the joyous life of Timon, and his hospitable extravagance; then launches into his pecuniary embarrassment, and the discovery that his “professed friends” will not help him; and ends with his flight into the woods, his misanthropy, and his death. When he [_Horace Walpole_] talked misanthropy, he out-Timoned Timon.--Macaulay. ⁂ On one occasion, Timon said, “I have a fig tree in my garden, which I once intended to cut down; but I shall let it stand, that any one who likes may go and hang himself on it.” =Timon’s Banquet=, nothing but cover and warm water. Being shunned by his friends in adversity, he pretended to have recovered his money, and invited his false friends to a banquet. The table was laden with covers, but when the contents were exposed, nothing was provided but lukewarm water. (See SCHACABAC.)--Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_, act iii. sc. 6 (1609). =Timoth´eos=, a musician, who charged double fees to all pupils who had learned music before.--Quintilian, _De Institutione Oratoria_, ii. 3. Ponocrates made him forget all that he [_Gargantua_] had learned under other masters, as Timŏthĕus did to his disciples who had been taught music by others.--Rabelais, _Gargantua_, i. 23 (1533). Timotheus placed on high Amid the tuneful quire, With flying fingers touched the lyre. Dryden, _Alexander’s Feast_ (1697). =Timothy= (_Old_), ostler at John Menge’s inn, at Kirchoff.--Sir W. Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.). =Timothy Quaint=, the whimsical, but faithful steward of Governor Heartall; blunt, self-willed, but loving his master above all things, and true to his interests.--Cherry, _The Soldier’s Daughter_ (1804). =Ti´murkan=, the Tartar, and conqueror of China. After a usurpation of twenty years, he was slain in a rising of the people, by Zaphimri, “the orphan of China.” My mind’s employed on other arts: To sling the well-stored quiver Over this arm, and wing the darts At the first reindeer sweeping down the vale, Or up the mountain, straining every nerve; To vault the neighing steed, and urge his course, Swifter than whirlwinds, through the ranks of war;-- These are my passions, this my only science. Raised from a soldier to imperial sway, I still will reign in terror. Murphy, _The Orphan of China_, iv. 1.