T I M 



T I M 



2. Time i* either duple or triple. The former divides 

 very bar, or mea*u jual pails; the 



Utter inti- . Time* are marked !;. 



C, also by this letter barred (CK ) an( ^ ' "^ c 



C, whether barred or not, indicate* Common Turn' ; that 



M. duple time. I, mug one semibreTe, or it e<( 



note*, in each bar. Figures represent the fraction 



acmibrcvc. the uiipt i 



denominator. When 1:.> iinnierator is 'J 



dupK- or 1'J. it i- 



common ; anil when compound-triple, lint in 



reality, there are only two times, binary tint! ternary ; or, 



duple' and triple : a i'act which would lo'nir ago have been 



recognised and acted on, had music, UK A system, made 



advances which have long been witnessed in the 

 other arts and sciences. 



has hitherto had a third meaning 



annexed to it in musical language, by its employment in 

 the sense of movement, a practice which has produced 

 some confusion. The Italian word Tempo, signifying the 

 came, is now growing into nst a manifest improvement, 

 which, it is to be hoped, will not have to encounter those 

 professional prejudices under which music has so long 

 laboured. [MKTBONOM.B.] 



On the subject of Time (Temt) Rousseau has well re- 

 marked, that a succession of sounds, however skilfully 

 arranged as to high and low, produces only vague effects. 

 It is measure, the duration, relative and proportional, of 

 sounds, wluch fixes the true character of the music, and 

 endows it with all its energy. Time (under which tenn 

 ne, of course, includes rhythm is the soul of sonsr. Airs 



make us pensive; but a 



spirited, and well eadenc. IH with joy, and 



our feet can hardly be r. :.m dancing. Break 



the measure, confound tint relative limes of the sounds, 

 and the very same airs which proportion had rendered so 

 agreeable, at once lose all their character, all their charms, 

 and are incapable of exciting tli it decree of plea- 



sure. Time, on the contrary, possess. a power, in 



itself, and acts independently of a diversity of sounds. The 

 dnim furnishes a proof of this, rough and imperfect as the 

 instrument is, because (the author ought to have said its 

 beats are in rhythm, though the sound is unvaried. 



TIMO'LKON general and 8 



man. He was a native of Corinth, and the son of Timo- 

 demus and Timariste. Respecting his youth we know 

 nothing, except that he v ; distinguished by his 



noble character and his love of freedom than by his illus- 

 trious descent. When he had grown up to manhood, his 

 elder brother Timophanes, who nad been elected general 

 by the Corinthians, assumed the tyrannis in his native city 

 by the hell) of hi- friend.- and his mercenaries. Timolcon 

 at first only remonstrated with his brother, but when this 

 was useless, he formed a plot against him, andTimoj 

 was killed. Soon after this event, which threw nil Corinth 

 into a state of violent agitation, some extolling the con- 

 duct of Timoleon as magnanimous and worthy of a real 

 patri" -'irsing :md condemning him as a fratricide, 



there arrived at Corinth ambassadors from -olicit- 



ing the aid ot the l.Vrintln : its oppressor*. This 



was a favourable opi Timo- 



-f his followers, while at the same time il 

 con a field of action in f 

 Ung to his principles and deliver the 

 - ors. Timoleon was accordingly s. 

 Syracuse with a small band of mercenaries, which he him- 

 self had raised, 344 B.C. - *as then dividrd into 



parties: the popular party, which hud engaged the 

 service of Timoleon ; a ( larthaginian party ; and the paih of 

 DionvMiis, the tyrant, who had returned from Italy in ii.c. 

 346. Dionysius had already been driven out of a pan 

 city by Hiectas, the tyrant of Lcontini, who support. 

 Carthaginian party. On the arrival of Timuleoii, Iliceta- 

 w compelled to withdraw tu I 

 was reduuedtosurrender himself an. Ithe citadel lo 

 was allowed to ijint the island in safety, and he withdrew 



mth. in B.C. 343. [ni<.Nv,irs. i 

 become dc- cessive r< 



warfare, i r and the sprii. 



wau, :.j.,-:.>:-c 



ing those w.. 



from other part* o 



thish 



tginians an 



in oni 



HlCi-'.l-. ~>I! 



i inns- 

 hot 



oat against the enemy, ana i > 

 ralnhip he succt. 

 Carthaginians on the bank- 

 tiiicd them to the pan 



and the western coast, n.< . . 

 couclnsion ofu peace with 



; the tyrants in nther I . whom he < 



pelled to surrender or withdraw, partly by the terror 

 name and partly 



s.incr, and condemned to death by the Syracuse:: 

 wife and family. 



: freedom and the ascendency of Syracuse wen 

 restored in the greater part of Sn-ily. Ti 

 his attention to the restoration of the prospei 

 towns and the country. The former, esp. 

 were still thinly peopled, and he invited colonists 

 Corinth and other parts to settle there, end distr; 

 lands among them. He himself, with the con* 

 Symciisans, undertook to revise and amend their constitu- 

 tion and laws, and to adapt them to t 

 circumstances of the state. Although it would 

 easy tor him to establish himself as tyrant and to sec 

 his descendants the kingly power at Syracuse, he fi. 

 the duties of the office entrusted to him with a 1.. 

 which has rarely been equalled. He had no ot 

 view but the establishment of popular libi : 

 prepared and trained the people. Some acts of c 

 apparent injustice with which he. is chin 



in the character of those whom he had to deal with, 

 for the Syracu.-ans at that time were a motley and i 

 ralized people, who could not be managed without Timo- 

 leon's assuming at times the very power which it w;. 

 wish to destroy. Hut Syr:! cily felt the b 



of his institutions for main . his di ath. an.! 



tinned to enjoy i.i 



During the" latter part Timoleon was blind 



and lived in retirement, respected and beloved by the 

 Sicilians as their liberator and benefactor. in the 



. . :n7. and was buried in the Agora ol 

 where subsequently his grave was sin 

 and adorned with a gymnasium called the Tin; 



(Plutarch, and C. Nepos, Life of Timoleon : and ]>io- 

 dorus Siculus, lib. xvi.) 



IVcadrnchra of Syraeue, lurrlod M a ram|>lr of tile Coins of Kyracuie. 

 Muslim. Actual Kir. Si . lailu. 



TIMO'MAi'lirs. a celebrated antient painter, a ' 

 ofHyrantium. and -aid to have been 



it. Hit.!., i\\\. 

 '*sar purchased two pictp 



maohus. for SO I7.'2M)/. ; . 



Itutlllg Ajax the -on of Telftmon broodiiur nver In- 

 fortunes; the other. Medea about to 

 'bcaU'd them in 11. < 



much celebrated b\ 



there are several c| igram- ii|ion them in the fircel; antbo- 

 ind they are all (hid in the two following 



- 



I ir int. 



< Aj 



iii.l I',.- 1. 



barbarous 



... ii. 525.) 



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