ied in Macedonia, according to Suidas, at the age of 97; though the Marbles, much better authority, say at 95; and Stephen of Byzantium fixes his death in the fourth year of the 10th Olympiad, two years before the birth of Alexander the Great; whence it appears, that this Timotheus was not the famous player on the flute so much esteemed by that prince, who was animated to such a degree by his performance as to seize his arms; and who employed him, as Athenaeus informs us, together with the other great musicians of his time, at his nuptials. However, by an inattention to dates, and by forgetting that of these two musicians of the same name the one was a Miletian and the other a Theban, they have been hitherto often confounded.