Tīmocreon (first half of the fifth century BC), Greek lyric and elegiac poet from Rhodes, who took the Persian side when the Persians occupied that island. Only small fragments of his work survive in quotation. He was a personal enemy of Themistoclēs and Simonidēs; the latter pilloried him in a couplet purporting to be his epitaph.

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