1. A Lacedaemonian, was one of the three counsellors (Brasidas and Lycophron being his
colleagues) who were sent to assist Cnemus after his first defeat by Phormion in the
Corinthian gulf, in B. C. 429. In the second battle there shortly
after, Tímocrates was on board of a Leucadian galley, which was one of the twenty
fast-sailing ships appointed to prevent the Athenians from escaping to Naupactus. This vessel,
in the pursuit, far outstripped the rest of the squadron, and the hindmost Athenian galley,
closely chased by it, wheeled suddenly round a merchant ship which was lying at anchor, struck
her pursuer in the centre, and sank her. Timocrates hereupon slew himself, and his body was
washed into the harbour of Naupactus (Thuc. 2.85-92).