Timasitheus of Trapezus

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Timasitheus or Timesitheus (Gr. {{lang|grc|Τιμασίθεος}} or {{lang|grc|Τιμησίθεος}}, fl. 4th century BC) was a citizen of Trapezus, and a proxenus of the Mossynoeci, between whom and the Cyrean Greeks he acted as interpreter, when the latter wished to make a treaty with the barbarians, and to obtain a passage through their country.Xenophon, Anabasis v. 4. §§ 2, &c.{{Citation

| last = Elder

| first = Edward

| author-link =

| contribution = Timasitheus (1)

| editor-last = Smith

| editor-first = William

| title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

| volume = 3

| pages = 1135

| publisher =

| place = Boston

| year = 1867

| contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/3468.html }}