A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

1. Timagenes, the rhetorician (ῥήτωρ), of Alexandria, the son of the king's banker, was taken prisoner by Gabinius (B. C. 55), and brought to Rome, where he was redeemed from captivity by Faustus, the son of Sulla. He taught rhetoric at Rome in the time of Pompey, and afterwards under Augustus, but losing his school on account of his freedom of speech, he retired to an estate at Tusculum. He died at Dabanum, a town of Osrhoene in Mesopotamia.

2. Timagenes, the historian.

3. Timagenes or Timogenes, of Miletus, an historian or an orator, wrote on the Pontic Heracleia and its distinguished men, in five books, and likewise epistles.

4. Timagenes, the Syrian.