took a dislike to that pursuit and went abroad to Megara to stay with Stilpo ; then after some time he returned home and married. After that he went to Pvrrho at Elis with his wife, and lived there until his children were born ; the elder of these he called Xanthus. taught him medicine, and made him his heir. This son was a man of high repute, as we learn from Sotion in his eleventh book. Timon, however, found himself without means of support and sailed to the Hellespont and Propontis. Living now at Chalcedon as a sophist, he increased his reputation still further and, having made his fortune, went to Athens, where he lived until his death, except for a short period which he spent at Thebes. He was known to King Antigonus and to Ptolemy Philadelphia, as his own iambics a testify. He was, according to Antigonus, fond of wine, and in the time that he could spare from philosophy he used to write poems. These included epics, tragedies, satyric dramas, thirty comedies and sixty tragedies, besides silli (lampoons) and obscene poems. There are also reputed works of his extending to twenty thousand verses which are mentioned by Antigonus of Carystus, who also wrote his life. There are three silli in which, from his point of view as a Sceptic, he abuses every one and lampoons the dogmatic philosophers, using the form of parody. In the first he speaks in the first person throughout, the second and third are in the form of dialogues ; for he represents himself as questioning Xenophanes of Colophon about each philosopher in turn, while Xenophanes answers him ; in the second he speaks of the more ancient philosophers, in the third of the Possibly the proem of the Silli.