§12.23.1ὅτι κατὰ τοῦ Ἐφόρου Τίμαιος πλείστην πεποίηται καταδρομήν, αὐτὸς ὢν δυσὶν ἁμαρτήμασιν ἔνοχος, §12.23.2τῷ μὲν ὅτι πικρῶς κατηγορεῖ τῶν πέλας ἐπὶ τούτοις οἷς αὐτὸς ἔνοχός ἐστι, τῷ δὲ διότι καθόλου διέφθαρται τῇ ψυχῇ, τοιαύτας ἀποφάσεις ἐκτιθέμενος ἐν τοῖς ὑπομνήμασι καὶ τοιαύτας ἐντίκτων δόξας τοῖς ἐντυγχάνουσι.
That Timaeus has made the greatest onslaught against Ephorus, being himself liable to two errors: first, because he bitterly accuses his neighbors of those very things of which he himself is guilty; second, because he is utterly corrupted in his soul, setting forth such assertions in his memoirs and instilling such opinions in his readers.
§12.23.3πλὴν εἰ τὸν Καλλισθένην θετέον εἰκότως κολασθέντα μεταλλάξαι τὸν βίον, τί χρὴ πάσχειν Τίμαιον;
But if we must assume that Callisthenes was reasonably punished when he departed this life, what ought Timaeus to suffer?
πολὺ γὰρ ἂν δικαιότερον τούτῳ νεμεσήσαι τὸ δαιμόνιον ἢ Καλλισθένει.
For it would be far more just for the deity to be wroth with him than with Callisthenes.
§12.23.4ἐκεῖνος μὲν οὖν ἀποθεοῦν Ἀλέξανδρον ἐβουλήθη, Τίμαιος δὲ μείζω ποιεῖ Τιμολέοντα τῶν ἐπιφανεστάτων θεῶν, §12.23.5καὶ Καλλισθένης μὲν ἄνδρα τοιοῦτον, ὃν πάντες μεγαλοφυέστερον ἢ κατʼ ἄνθρωπον γεγονέναι τῇ ψυχῇ συγχωροῦσιν, §12.23.6οὗτος δὲ Τιμολέοντα τὸν οὐχ οἷον δόξαντά τι πεπραχέναι μεγαλεῖον, ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ ἐπιβαλόμενον, μίαν δʼ ἐν τῷ βίῳ γραμμὴν διανύσαντα, καὶ ταύτην οὐδὲ σπουδαίαν τρόπον τινὰ πρὸς τὸ μέγεθος τῆς οἰκουμένης, λέγω δὲ τὴν ἐκ τῆς πατρίδος εἰς Συρακούσας.
For the former wished to deify Alexander, but Timaeus makes Timoleon greater than the most illustrious gods; and Callisthenes did so to such a man, whom all agree was of a soul more sublime than belongs to human nature, whereas this man does so to Timoleon, who, so far from being thought to have performed anything grand, did not even attempt it, and who completed but a single course in his life, and that too in a way of no importance compared to the magnitude of the inhabited world—I mean the journey from his native land to Syracuse.
§12.23.7ἀλλά μοι δοκεῖ πεισθῆναι Τίμαιος ὡς, ἂν Τιμολέων, πεφιλοδοξηκὼς ἐν αὐτῇ Σικελίᾳ, καθάπερ ἐν ὀξυβάφῳ, σύγκριτος φανῇ τοῖς ἐπιφανεστάτοις τῶν ἡρώων, κἂν αὐτὸς ὑπὲρ Ἰταλίας μόνον καὶ Σικελίας πραγματευόμενος εἰκότως παραβολῆς ἀξιωθῆναι τοῖς ὑπὲρ τῆς οἰκουμένης καὶ τῶν καθόλου πράξεων πεποιημένοις τὰς συντάξεις.
But it seems to me that Timaeus was persuaded that if Timoleon, who had won fame in Sicily alone, as if in a vinegar-cruet, should appear comparable to the most illustrious of heroes, he himself also, who occupied himself only with Italy and Sicily, might reasonably be deemed worthy of comparison with those who have made their compositions about the inhabited world and universal history.
§12.23.8περὶ μὲν οὖν Ἀριστοτέλους καὶ Θεοφράστου καὶ Καλλισθένους, ἔτι δʼ Ἐφόρου καὶ Δημοχάρους, ἱκανὰ ταῦθʼ ἡμῖν ἐστι πρὸς τὴν Τιμαίου καταδρομήν, ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἀφιλοτίμως πεπεισμένους ἀληθεύειν τὸν συγγραφέα τοῦτον. —
Now, concerning Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Callisthenes, and further Ephorus and Demochares, this is sufficient for us against the onslaught of Timaeus, and likewise against those who are thoughtlessly persuaded that this historian speaks the truth.