a town and fortress of Hindustan, in the Carnatic, district of Palnaud, seventy-seven miles S.S.E. from Hyderabad. Long. 79. 20. E. Lat. 16. 17. N.

**TIMON** the **Sceptic**, who is not to be confounded with Timon the **Misanthrope**, was a Philistine, a disciple of Pyrrho, and lived in the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus. He took so little pains to invite disciples to his school, that it has been said of him, that as the Scythians shot flying, Timon gained pupils by running from them. He was fond of rural retirement, and was so much addicted to wine that he had a successful contest with several celebrated champions in drinking. Like Lucian, he wrote with sarcastic humour against the whole body of philosophers. The fragments of his satirical poem *Silli*, often quoted by the ancients, have been carefully collected by Stephanus in his *Poesis Philosophica*, and by Brunck in his *Analecta*. Timon lived to the age of ninety years.