It was on this account that the kingdom of the Molossi continued so long; and the Lacedaemonians from their government's being from the beginning divided into two parts, and also by the moderation introduced into the other parts of it by
Theopompus, and his establishment of the ephori; for by taking something from the power he increased the duration of the kingdom, so that in some measure he made it not less, but bigger; as they say he replied to his wife, who asked him if he was not ashamed to deliver down his kingdom to his children reduced from what he received it from his ancestors?
(20) He also seems to have used part of
Theopompus's history.
(8) Gregory Thaumaturgus, "To
Theopompus, on the Impassibility and Passibility of God," in The Fathers of the Church, vol.
(16.) See also
Theopompus, FGrH 115 F 49 (= Athenaeus12.527a) and F 213 (= Athenaeus 12.532c).
(13) Plutarch treats the ephorate as a later addition, albeit one deeply continuous with Lycurgus' constitutional reforms: 'the first ephors were appointed in the reign of
Theopompus' about 'one hundred and thirty years after Lycurgus' (7.1).
Eking out an existence through newspaper writing and occasional service to the government of El Salvador, he built himself a house with his own hands and devoted his scholarly efforts to a new--albeit fantastic--project: demonstrating contacts between the Classical world and the western hemisphere, which he identified with the land of Meropis mentioned by
Theopompus of Chios (pp.
The accounts by
Theopompus and Cratippus extended until Athens defeated the Spartan navy at Cnidus in 394.
The comic poet
Theopompus suggests that Agathon was not the only such character.
Of the other works ascribed to the Wonderworker, the Canonical Epistle and To
Theopompus stand out.