Timoclia, a gentlewoman of Thebes, vnderstandinge the couetous desire of
a Thracian knight, that had abused hir, and promised her mariage, rather
for her goods than loue, well acquited hir selfe from his falshoode.
[_Source and Origin._--Plutarch, _Alexander_, (Amyot).
_Parallels._--Zonar, _Ann._ i. f. 32; Wanley, _Wonders_, III. xxx.
6.
_Painter._--I. ii. 9; II. ii. 7; III. ii. 14; IV. ii. 172.
_Derivates._--A play entitled _Timoclia_, doubtless derived from
Painter, is mentioned in the Revel’s Account. It was played at
Merchant Taylors’ in 1574. Fleay, _History_, 381.]