Teleclīdes, an Athenian comic poet in the age of Pericles, one of whose plays, called the Amphictyon, is mentioned by ancient authors. Plutarch, Nicias.—Athenæus.

Tēlĕgŏnus, a son of Ulysses and Circe, born in the island of Ææa, where he was educated. When arrived to the years of manhood, he went to Ithaca to make himself known to his father, but he was shipwrecked on the coast, and, being destitute of provisions, he plundered some of the inhabitants of the island. Ulysses and Telemachus came to defend the property of their subjects against this unknown invader; a quarrel arose, and Telegonus killed his father without knowing who he was. He afterwards returned to his native country, and, according to Hyginus, he carried thither his father’s body, where it was buried. Telemachus and Penelope also accompanied him in his return, and soon after the nuptials of Telegonus and Penelope were celebrated by order of Minerva. Penelope had by Telegonus a son called Italus, who gave his name to Italy. Telegonus founded Tusculum and Tibur or Præneste, in Italy, and, according to some, he left one daughter called Mamilia, from whom the patrician family of the Mamilii at Rome were descended. Horace, bk. 3, ode 29, li. 8.—Ovid, Fasti, bks. 3 & 4. Tristia, bk. 1, poem 1.—Plutarch, Parallela minora.—Hyginus, fable 12.—Diodorus, bk. 7.——A son of Proteus, killed by Hercules. Apollodorus.——A king of Egypt, who married Io after she had been restored to her original form by Jupiter. Apollodorus.

Tēlĕmăchus, a son of Ulysses and Penelope. He was still in the cradle when his father went with the rest of the Greeks to the Trojan war. At the end of this celebrated war, Telemachus, anxious to see his father, went to seek him, and as the place of his residence, and the cause of his long absence, were then unknown, he visited the court of Menelaus and Nestor to obtain information. He afterwards returned to Ithaca, where the suitors of his mother Penelope had conspired to murder him; but he avoided their snares, and by means of Minerva, he discovered his father, who had arrived in the island two days before him, and was then in the house of Eumæus. With this faithful servant and Ulysses, Telemachus concerted how to deliver his mother from the importunities of her suitors, and it was effected with success. After the death of his father, Telemachus went to the island of Ææa, where he married Circe, or, according to others, Cassiphone the daughter of Circe, by whom he had a son called Latinus. He some time after had the misfortune to kill his mother-in-law Circe, and fled to Italy, where he founded Clusium. Telemachus was accompanied in his visit to Nestor and Menelaus by the goddess of wisdom, under the form of Mentor. It is said that, when a child, Telemachus fell into the sea, and that a dolphin brought him safe to shore, after he had remained some time under water. From this circumstance Ulysses had the figure of a dolphin engraved on the seal which he wore on his ring. Hyginus, fables 95 & 125.—Ovid, Heroides, poem 1, li. 98.—Horace, bk. 1, ltr. 7, li. 41.—Homer, Odyssey, bk. 2, &c.—Lycophron, Alexandra.

Telĕmus, a Cyclops who was acquainted with futurity. He foretold to Polyphemus all the evils which he some time after suffered from Ulysses. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 13, li. 771.

Telephassa, the mother of Cadmus, Phœnix, and Cilix by Agenor. She died in Thrace, as she was seeking her daughter Europa, whom Jupiter had carried away. Apollodorus, bk. 3, chs. 1 & 4.

Tĕlĕphus, a king of Mysia, son of Hercules and Auge the daughter of Aleus. He was exposed as soon as born on mount Parthenius, but his life was preserved by a goat, and by some shepherds. According to Apollodorus, he was exposed, not on a mountain, but in the temple of Minerva, at Tegea, or, according to a tradition mentioned by Pausanias, he was left to the mercy of the waves with his mother, by the cruelty of Aleus, and carried by the winds to the mouth of the Caycus, where he was found by Teuthras the king of the country, who married, or rather adopted as his daughter, Auge, and educated her son. Some, however, suppose that Auge fled to Teuthras to avoid the anger of her father, on account of her amour with Hercules. Yet others declare that Aleus gave her to Nauplius to be ♦severely punished for her incontinence, and that Nauplius, unwilling to injure her, sent her to Teuthras king of Bithynia, by whom she was adopted. Telephus, according to the more received opinions, was ignorant of his origin, and he was ordered by the oracle, if he wished to know his parents, to go to Mysia. Obedient to this injunction, he came to Mysia, where Teuthras offered him his crown, and his adopted daughter Auge in marriage, if he would deliver his country from the hostilities of Idas the son of Aphareus. Telephus readily complied, and at the head of the Mysians, he soon routed the enemy, and received the promised reward. As he was going to unite himself to Auge, the sudden appearance of an enormous serpent separated the two lovers; Auge implored the assistance of Hercules, and was soon informed by the god that Telephus was her own son. When this was known, the nuptials were not celebrated, and Telephus some time after married one of the daughters of king Priam. As one of the sons of the Trojan monarch, Telephus prepared to assist Priam against the Greeks, and with heroic valour he attacked them when they had landed on his coast. The carnage was great, and Telephus was victorious, had not Bacchus, who protected the Greeks, suddenly raised a vine from the earth, which entangled the feet of the monarch, and laid him flat on the ground. Achilles immediately rushed upon him, and wounded him so severely, that he was carried away from the battle. The wound was mortal, but Telephus was informed by the oracle, that he alone who had inflicted it could totally cure it. Upon this, applications were made to Achilles, but in vain; the hero observed that he was no physician, till Ulysses, who knew that Troy could not be taken without the assistance of one of the sons of Hercules, and who wished to make Telephus the friend of the Greeks, persuaded Achilles to obey the directions of the oracle. Achilles consented, and as the weapon which had given the wound could alone cure it, the hero scraped the rust from the point of his spear, and, by applying it to the sore, gave it immediate relief. It is said that Telephus showed himself so grateful to the Greeks, that he accompanied them to the Trojan war, and fought with them against his father-in-law. Hyginus, fable 101.—Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 48.—Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 7, &c.—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 12, ch. 42.—Diodorus, bk. 4.—Ovid, Fasti, bk. 1, poem 1, &c.—Philostratus, Heroicus.—Pliny.——A friend of Horace, remarkable for his beauty and the elegance of his person. He was the favourite of Lydia the mistress of Horace, &c. Horace, bk. 1, ode 12; bk. 4, ode 11, li. 21.——A slave who conspired against Augustus. Suetonius, Augustus.——Lucius Verus, wrote a book on the rhetoric of Homer, as also a comparison of that poet with Plato, and other treatises, all lost.

♦ ‘sevevely’ replaced with ‘severely’

Telesia, a town of Campania, taken by Annibal. Livy, bk. 21, ch. 13; bk. 24, ch. 20.

Telesĭcles, a Parian, father to the poet Archilochus by a slave called Enippo. Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 10, ch. 13.

Telesilla, a lyric poetess of Argos, who bravely defended her country against the Lacedæmonians, and obliged them to raise the siege. A statue was raised to her honour in the temple of Venus. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 20.

Telesinicus, a Corinthian auxiliary at Syracuse, &c. Polyænus, bk. 5.

Telesīnus, a general of the Samnites, who joined the interest of Marius, and fought against the generals of Sylla. He marched towards Rome and defeated Sylla with great loss. He was afterwards routed in a bloody battle, and left in the number of the slain, after he had given repeated proofs of valour and courage. Plutarch, Sulla, &c.——A poet of considerable merit in Domitian’s reign. Juvenal, satire 7, li. 25.

Telesippus, a poor man of Pheræ, father to the tyrant Dinias. Polyænus, bk. 2.

Telestagŏras, a man of Naxos, whose daughters were ravished by some of the nobles of the island, in consequence of which they were expelled by the direction of Lygdamis, &c. Athenæus, bk. 8.

Telestas, a son of Priam. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 12.——An athlete of Messenia. Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 14.——A king of Corinth, who died 779 B.C.

Telestes, a dithyrambic poet, who flourished B.C. 402.

Telesto, one of the Oceanides. Hesiod, Theogony.

Telethes, a mountain in Eubœa.

Telethūsa, the wife of Lygdus or Lyctus, a native of Crete. She became mother of a daughter, who was afterwards changed into a boy. See: Iphis. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 9, li. 681.

Teleurias, a prince of Macedonia, &c. Xenophon.

Teleutias, the brother of Agesilaus, who was killed by the Olynthians, &c.

Teleute, a surname of Venus among the Egyptians. Plutarch, de Iside et Osiride.

Tellenæ, a town of Latium, now destroyed. Livy, bk. 1, ch. 33.

Telles, a king of Achaia, son of Tisamenes. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 6.

Tellias, a famous soothsayer of Elis, in the age of Xerxes. He was greatly honoured in Phocis, where he had settled, and the inhabitants raised him a statue in the temple of Apollo, at Delphi. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 1.—Herodotus, bk. 8, ch. 27.

Tellis, a Greek lyric poet, the father of Brasidas.

Tellus, a divinity, the same as the earth, the most ancient of all the gods after Chaos. She was mother by Cœlus of Oceanus, Hyperion, Ceus, Rhea, Japetus, Themis, Saturn, Phœbe, Tethys, &c. Tellus is the same as the divinity who is honoured under the several names of Cybele, Rhea, Vesta, Ceres, Tithea, Bona Dea, Proserpine, &c. She was generally represented in the character of Tellus, as a woman with many breasts, distended with milk, to express the fecundity of the earth. She also appeared crowned with turrets, holding a sceptre in one hand and a key in the other; while at her feet was lying a tame lion without chains, as if to intimate that every part of the earth can be made fruitful by means of cultivation. Hesiod, Theogony, li. 130.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 137.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 1.——A poor man, whom Solon called happier than Crœsus the rich and ambitious king of Lydia. Tellus had the happiness to see a strong and healthy family of children, and at last to fall in the defence of his country. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 30.——An Italian who is said to have had commerce with his mares, and to have had a daughter called Hippone, who became the goddess of horses.

Telmessus, or Telmissus, a town of Caria, whose inhabitants were skilled in augury and the interpretation of dreams. Cicero, de Divinatione, bk. 1.—Strabo, bk. 14.—Livy, bk. 37, ch. 16.——Another in Lycia.——A third in Pisidia.

Telo Martius, a town at the south of Gaul, now Toulon.

Telon, a skilful pilot of Massilia, killed during the siege of that city by Cæsar. Lucan, bk. 3, li. 592.——A king of the Teleboæ, who married Sebethis, by whom he had Œbalus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 734.

Telos, a small island near Rhodes.

Telphūsa, a nymph of Arcadia, daughter of the Ladon who gave her name to a town and fountain of that place. The waters of the fountain Telphusa were so cold, that Tiresias died by drinking them. Diodorus, bk. 4.—Strabo, bk. 9.—Lycophron, li. 1040.

Telxiŏpe, one of the muses according to Cicero, de Natura Deorum, bk. 3, ch. 21.

Telys, a tyrant of Sybaris.

Temathea, a mountain of Messenia. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 34.

Temēnium, a place in Messene, where Temenus was buried.

Temĕnītes, a surname of Apollo, which he received at Temenos, a small place near Syracuse, where he was worshipped. Cicero, Against Verres.

Temĕnos, a place of Syracuse, where Apollo, called Temenites, had a statue. Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 4, ch. 53.—Suetonius, Tiberius, ch. 74.

Temĕnus, the son of Aristomachus, was the first of the Heraclidæ, who returned to Peloponnesus with his brother Ctesiphontes, and in the reign of Tisamenes king of Argos. Temenus made himself master of the throne of Argos, from which he expelled the reigning sovereign. After death he was succeeded by his son-in-law Deiphon, who had married his daughter Hyrnetho, and this succession was in preference to his own son. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Pausanias, bk. 2, chs. 18 & 19.——A son of Pelasgus, who was entrusted with the care of Juno’s infancy. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 22.

Temerinda, the name of the Paulus Mæotis among the natives.

Temĕsa, a town of Cyprus.——Another in Calabria in Italy, famous for its mines of copper, which were exhausted in the age of Strabo. Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 5, ch. 15.—Livy, bk. 34, ch. 35.—Homer, Odyssey, bk. 1, li. 184.—Ovid, Fasti, bk. 5, li. 441; Metamorphoses, bk. 7, li. 207.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 4.—Strabo, bk. 6.

Temnes, a king of Sidon.

Temnos, a town of Æolia, at the mouth of the Hermus. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 49.—Cicero, Flaccus, ch. 18.

Tempe (plural), a valley in Thessaly, between mount Olympus at the north and Ossa at the south, through which the river Peneus flows into the Ægean. The poets have described it as the most delightful spot on the earth, with continually cool shades and verdant walks, which the warbling of birds rendered more pleasant and romantic, and which the gods often honoured with their presence. Tempe extended about five miles in length, but varied in the dimensions of its breadth so as to be in some places scarce one acre and a half wide. All valleys that are pleasant, either for their situation or the mildness of their climate, are called Tempe by the poets. Strabo, bk. 9.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 3.—Diodorus, bk. 4.—Dionysius Periegetes, li. 219.—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 3, ch. 1.—Plutarch, de Musica.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 2, li. 469.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 569.

Tenchtheri, a nation of Germany, who frequently changed the place of their habitation. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 13, ch. 56; Histories, bk. 4, ch. 21.

Tendera, a town of Caria. Livy, bk. 33, ch. 18.

Tenea, a part of Corinth. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 3.

Tenĕdia securis. See: Tenes.

Tĕnĕdos, a small and fertile island of the Ægean sea, opposite Troy, at the distance of about 12 miles from Sigæum, and 56 miles north from Lesbos. It was anciently called Leucophrys, till Tenes the son of Cycnus settled there and built a town, which he called Tenedos, from which the whole island received its name. It became famous during the Trojan war, as it was there that the Greeks concealed themselves, the more effectually to make the Trojans believe that they were returned home without finishing the siege. Homer, Odyssey, bk. 3, li. 59.—Diodorus, bk. 5.—Strabo, bk. 13.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 2, li. 21.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 1, li. 540; bk. 12, li. 109.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.

Tenĕrus, son of Apollo and Melia, received from his father the knowledge of futurity. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 10.

Tenes, a son of ♦Cycnus and Proclea. He was exposed on the sea, on the coast of Troas, by his father, who credulously believed his wife Philonome, who had fallen in love with Cycnus, and accused him of attempts upon her virtue, when he refused to gratify her passion. Tenes arrived in Leucophrys, which he called Tenedos, and of which he became the sovereign. Some time after ♦Cycnus discovered the guilt of his wife Philonome, and as he wished to be reconciled to his son whom he had so grossly injured, he went to Tenedos. But when he had tied his ship to the shore, Tenes cut off the cable with a hatchet, and suffered his father’s ship to be tossed about in the sea. From this circumstance the hatchet of Tenes is become proverbial to intimate a resentment that cannot be pacified. Some, however, suppose that the proverb arose from the severity of a law made by a king of Tenedos against adultery, by which the guilty were both put to death by a hatchet. The hatchet of Tenes was carefully preserved at Tenedos, and afterwards deposited by Periclytus son of Eutymachus, in the temple of Delphi, where it was still seen in the age of Pausanias. Tenes, as some suppose, was killed by Achilles, as he defended his country against the Greeks, and he received divine honours after death. His statue at Tenedos was carried away by Verres. Strabo, bk. 13.—Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 14.——A general of 4000 mercenary Greeks sent by the Egyptians to assist the Phœnicians. Diodorus, bk. 16.

♦ ‘Cyncus’ replaced with ‘Cycnus’

Tĕnĕsis, a part of Æthiopia. Strabo.

Tennes, a king of Sidon, who, when his country was besieged by the Persians, burnt himself and the city together, B.C. 351.

Tennum, a town of Æolia.

Tenos, a small island in the Ægean, near Andros, called Ophiussa, and also Hydrussa, from the number of its fountains. It was very mountainous, but it produced excellent wines, universally esteemed by the ancients. Tenos was about 15 miles in extent. The capital was also called Tenos.—Strabo, bk. 10.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 7, li. 469.

Tenty̆ra (plural) and Tentyris, a small town of Egypt, on the Nile, whose inhabitants were at enmity with the crocodiles, and made war against those who paid them adoration. Seneca, Quæstiones Naturales, bk. 4, ch. 2.—Strabo, bk. 17.—Juvenal, satire 15.—Pliny, bk. 25, ch. 8.

Tenty̆ra (melius Tempyra), a place of Thrace, opposite Samothrace. Ovid, Tristia, bk. 1, poem 9, li. 21.

Teos, or Teios, now Sigagik, a maritime town on the coast of Ionia in Asia Minor, opposite Samos. It was one of the 12 cities of the Ionian confederacy, and gave birth to Anacreon and Hecatæus, who is by some deemed a native of Miletus. According to Pliny, Teos was an island. Augustus repaired Teos, whence he is often called the founder of it on ancient medals. Strabo, bk. 14.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 17.—Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 3.—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 8, ch. 5.—Horace, bk. 1, ode 17, li. 18.—Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 31.

Terēdon, a town on the Arabian gulf. Dionysius Periegeta, li. 982.

Terentia, the wife of Cicero. She became mother of Marcus Cicero, and of a daughter called Tulliola. Cicero repudiated her because she had been faithless to his bed, when he was banished in Asia. Terentia married Sallust, Cicero’s enemy, and afterwards Messala Corvinus. She lived to her 103rd, or, according to Pliny, to her 117th year. Plutarch, Cicero.—Valerius Maximus, bk. 8, ch. 13.—Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. 11, ltr. 16, &c.——The wife of Scipio Africanus.——The wife of Mecænas, with whom it was said that Augustus carried on an intrigue.

Terentia lex, called also Cassia, frumentaria, by Marcus Terentius Varro Lucullus and Caius Cassius, A.U.C. 680. It ordered that the same price should be given for all corn bought in the provinces, to hinder the exactions of the questors.——Another, by Terentius the tribune, A.U.C. 291, to elect five persons to define the power of the consuls, lest they should abuse the public confidence, by violence or rapine.

Terentiānus, a Roman to whom Longinus dedicated his treatise on the sublime.——Maurus, a writer who flourished A.D. 240. The last edition of his treatise de literis, syllabis, et metris Horatii, is by Mycillus, Frankfurt, 8vo, 1584. Martial, bk. 1, ltr. 70.

Terentius Publius, a native of Carthage in Africa, celebrated for the comedies which he wrote. He was sold as a slave to Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, who educated him with great care, and manumitted him for the brilliancy of his genius. He bore the name of his master and benefactor, and was called Terentius. He applied himself to the study of Greek comedy with uncommon assiduity, and merited the friendship and patronage of the learned and powerful. Scipio the elder Africanus, and his friend Lælius, have been suspected, on account of their intimacy, of assisting the poet in the composition of his comedies; and the fine language, the pure expressions, and delicate sentiments with which the plays of Terence abound, seem, perhaps, to favour the supposition. Terence was in the 25th year of his age when his first play appeared on the Roman stage. All his compositions were received with great applause, but when the words

Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto,

were repeated, the plaudits were reiterated, and the audience, though composed of foreigners, conquered nations, allies, and citizens of Rome, were unanimous in applauding the poet, who spoke with such elegance and simplicity the language of nature, and supported the native independence of man. The talents of Terence were employed rather in translation than in the effusions of originality. It is said that he translated 108 of the comedies of the poet Menander, six of which only are extant, his Andria, Eunuch, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphi, Phormio, and Hecyra. Terence is admired for the purity of his language, and the artless elegance and simplicity of his diction, and for a continual delicacy of sentiment. There is more originality in Plautus, more vivacity in the intrigues, and more surprise in the catastrophes of his plays; but Terence will ever be admired for his taste, his expressions, and his faithful pictures of nature and manners, and the becoming dignity of his several characters. Quintilian, who candidly acknowledges the deficiencies of the Roman comedy, declares that Terence was the most elegant and refined of all the comedians whose writings appeared on the stage. The time and the manner of his death are unknown. He left Rome in the 35th year of his age, and never after appeared there. Some suppose that he was drowned in a storm as he returned from Greece, about 159 years before Christ, though others imagine he died in Arcadia or Leucadia, and that his death was accelerated by the loss of his property, and particularly of his plays which perished in a shipwreck. The best editions of Terence are those of Westerhovius, 2 vols., 4to, Amsterdam, 1726; of Edinburgh, 12mo, 1758; of Cambridge, 4to, 1723; Hawkey’s, 12mo, Dublin, 1745; and that of Zeunius, 8vo, Lipscomb, 1774. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. 7, ltr. 3.—Paterculus, bk. 1, ch. 17.—Quintilian, bk. 10, ch. 1.—Horace, bk. 2, ltr. 1, li. 59.——Culeo, a Roman senator, taken by the Carthaginians, and redeemed by Africanus. When Africanus triumphed, Culeo followed his chariot with a pileus on his head. He was some time after appointed judge between his deliverer and the people of Asia, and had the meanness to condemn him and his brother Asiaticus, though both innocent. Livy, bk. 30, ch. 45.——A tribune who wished the number of the citizens of Rome to be increased.——Evocatus, a man who, as it was supposed, murdered Galba. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 1, ch. 41.——Lentinus, a Roman knight condemned for perjury.——Varro, a writer. See: Varro.——A consul with Æmilius Paulus at the battle of Cannæ. He was the son of a butcher, and had followed for some time the profession of his father. He placed himself totally in the power of Hannibal, by making an improper disposition of his army. After he had been defeated, and his colleague slain, he retired to Canusium, with the remains of his slaughtered countrymen, and sent word to the Roman senate of his defeat. He received the thanks of this venerable body, because he had engaged the enemy, however improperly, and not despaired of the affairs of the republic. He was offered the dictatorship, which he declined. Plutarch.—Livy, bk. 22, &c.——An ambassador sent to Philip king of Macedonia.——Massaliora, an edile of the people, &c.——Marcus, a friend of Sejanus, accused before the senate for his intimacy with that discarded favourite. He made a noble defence, and was acquitted. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 6.

Terentus, a place in the Campus Martius near the capitol, where the infernal deities had an altar. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 1, li. 504.

Tēreus, a king of Thrace, son of Mars and Bistonis. He married Progne the daughter of Pandion king of Athens, whom he had assisted in a war against Megara. He offered violence to his sister-in-law Philomela, whom he conducted to Thrace by desire of Progne. See: Philomela and Progne.——A friend of Æneas, killed by Camilla. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 11, li. 675.

Tergeste and Tergestum, now Trieste, a town of Italy on the Adriatic sea, made a Roman colony. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 3, &c.—Dionysius Periegetes, li. 380.—Paterculus, bk. 2, ch. 110.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 18.

Terias, a river of Sicily near Catana.

Teribazus, a nobleman of Persia, sent with a fleet against Evagoras king of Cyprus. He was accused of treason, and removed from office, &c. Polyænus, bk. 7.

Teridae, a concubine of Menelaus.

Teridates, a favourite eunuch at the court of Artaxerxes. At his death the monarch was in tears for three days, and was consoled at last only by the arts and the persuasion of Aspasia, one of his favourites. Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 12, ch. 1.

Terigum, a town of Macedonia.

Terina, a town of the Brutii.

Terioli, now Tirol, a fortified town at the north of Italy, in the country of the Grisons.

Termentia, or Termes, a town of Hispania Tarraconensis.

Termera, a town of Caria.

Termĕrus, a robber of Peloponnesus, who killed people by crushing their head against his own. He was slain by Hercules in the same manner. Plutarch, Theseus.

Termesus, a river of Arcadia.

Termilæ, a name given to the Lycians.

Terminalia, annual festivals at Rome, observed in honour of the god Terminus, in the month of February. It was then usual for peasants to assemble near the principal landmarks which separated their fields, ♦and after they had crowned them with garlands and flowers, to make libations of milk and wine, and to sacrifice a lamb or a young pig. They were originally established by Numa, and though at first it was forbidden to shed the blood of victims, yet in process of time landmarks were plentifully sprinkled with it. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 2, li. 641.—Cicero, Philippics, bk. 12, ch. 10.

♦ ‘aad’ replaced with ‘and’

Terminālis, a surname of Jupiter, because he presided over the boundaries and lands of individuals, before the worship of the god Terminus was introduced. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, bk. 2.

Termĭnus, a divinity at Rome who was supposed to preside over bounds and limits, and to punish all unlawful usurpation of land. His worship was first introduced at Rome by Numa, who persuaded his subjects that the limits of their lands and estates were under the immediate inspection of heaven. His temple was on the Tarpeian rock, and he was represented with a human head without feet or arms, to intimate that he never moved, wherever he was placed. The people of the country assembled once a year with their families, and crowned with garlands and flowers the stones which ♦separated their different possessions, and offered victims to the god who presided over their boundaries. It is said that when Tarquin the Proud wished to build a temple on the Tarpeian rock to Jupiter, the god Terminus refused to give way, though the other gods resigned their seats with cheerfulness; whence Ovid has said,

Restitit, et mango cum Jove templa tenet.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, bk. 2.—Ovid, Fasti, bk. 2, li. 641.—Plutarch, Numa.—Livy, bk. 5.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9.

♦ ‘separted’ replaced with ‘separated’

Termissus, or Termessus, a town of Pisidia.

Terpander, a lyric poet and musician of Lesbos, 675 B.C. It is said that he appeased a tumult at Sparta by the melody and sweetness of his notes. He added three strings to the lyre, which before his time had only four. Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 12, ch. 50.—Plutarch, de Musica.

Terpsĭchŏre, one of the muses, daughter of Jupiter and Mnemosyne. She presided over dancing, of which she was reckoned the inventress, as her name intimates, and with which she delighted her sisters. She is represented like a young virgin crowned with laurel, and holding in her hand a musical instrument. Juvenal, satire 7, li. 35.—Apollodorus, bk. 1.—Eustathius, ad Iliadem, bk. 10.

Terpsicrăte, a daughter of Thespius. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 7.

Terra, one of the most ancient deities in mythology, wife of Uranus, and mother of Oceanus, the Titans, Cyclops, Giants, Thea, Rhea, Themis, Phœbe, ♦Tethys, and Mnemosyne. By the Air she had Grief, Mourning, Oblivion, Vengeance, &c. According to Hyginus, she is the same as Tellus. See: Tellus.

♦ ‘Thetys’ replaced with ‘Tethys’

Terracīna. See: Tarricina.

Terrasidius, a Roman knight in Cæsar’s army in Gaul. Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 3, chs. 7 & 8.

Terror, an emotion of the mind which the ancients have made a deity, and one of the attendants of the god Mars, and of Bellona.

Tertia, a sister of Clodius the tribune, &c.——A daughter of Paulus the conqueror of Perseus. Cicero, De Divinatione, bk. 1, ch. 46.——A daughter of Isidorus. Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 3, ch. 34.——A sister of Brutus, who married Cassius. She was also called Tertulla and Junia. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 3, ch. 76.—Suetonius, Cæsar, ch. 50.—Cicero, Letters to Brutus, ltrs. 5 & 6; Letters to Atticus, bk. 15, ltr. 11; bk. 16, ltr. 20.

Tertius Julianus, a lieutenant in Cæsar’s legions.

Tertulliānus Quintus Septimius Florens, a celebrated christian writer of Carthage, who flourished A.D. 196. He was originally a pagan, but afterwards embraced christianity, of which he became an able advocate by his writings, which showed that he was possessed of a lively imagination, impetuous eloquence, elevated style, and strength of reasoning. The most famous and esteemed of his numerous works, are his Apology for the Christians, and his Prescriptions. The best edition of Tertullian is that of Semlerus, 4 vols., 8vo, Halle, 1770; and of his Apology, that of Havercamp, 8vo, Leiden, 1718.

Tethys, the greatest of the sea deities, was wife of Oceanus, and daughter of Uranus and Terra. She was mother of the chiefest rivers of the universe, such as the Nile, the Alpheus, the Mæander, Simois, Peneus, Evenus, Scamander, &c., and about 3000 daughters called Oceanides. Tethys is confounded by some mythologists with her granddaughter Thetis the wife of Peleus, and the mother of Achilles. The word Tethys is poetically used to express the sea. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 1, &c.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 1, li. 31.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 2, li. 509; bk. 9, li. 498; Fasti, bk. 2, li. 191.—Hesiod, Theogony, li. 336.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 14, li. 302.

Tetis, a river of Gaul flowing from the Pyrenees. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 5.

Tetrapŏlis, a name given to the city of Antioch the capital of Syria, because it was divided into four separate districts, each of which resembled a city. Some apply the word to Seleucis, which contained the four large cities of Antioch near Daphne, Laodicea, Apamea, and Seleucia in Pieria.——The name of four towns at the north of Attica. Strabo, bk. 8.

Tĕtrĭca, a mountain of the Sabines near the river Fabaris. It was very rugged and difficult of access, whence the epithet Tetricus was applied to persons of a morose and melancholy disposition. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 713.

Tetrĭcus, a Roman senator, saluted emperor in the reign of Aurelian. He was led in triumph by his successful adversary, who afterwards heaped the most unbounded honours upon him and his son of the same name.

Teucer, a king of Phrygia, son of the Scamander by Ida. According to some authors he was the first who introduced among his subjects the worship of Cybele, and the dances of the Corybantes. The country where he reigned was from him called Teucria, and his subjects Teucri. His daughter Batea married Dardanus, a Samothracian prince, who succeeded him in the government of Teucria. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 12.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 108.——A son of Telamon king of Salamis, by Hesione the daughter of Laomedon. He was one of Helen’s suitors, and accordingly accompanied the Greeks to the Trojan war, where he signalized himself by his valour and intrepidity. It is said that his father refused to receive him into his kingdom, because he had left the death of his brother Ajax unrevenged. This severity of the father did not dishearten the son; he left Salamis, and retired to Cyprus, where, with the assistance of Belus king of Sidon, he built a town, which he called Salamis, after his native country. He attempted, to no purpose, to recover the island of Salamis after his father’s death. He built a temple to Jupiter in Cyprus, on which a man was annually sacrificed till the reign of the Antonines. Some suppose that Teucer did not return to Cyprus, but that, according to a less received opinion, he went to settle in Spain, where new Carthage was afterwards built, and thence into Galatia. Homer, Iliad, bk. 1, li. 281.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 1, li. 623.—Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 12.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 29.—Justin, bk. 44, ch. 3.—Paterculus, bk. 1, ch. 1.——One of the servants of Phalaris of Agrigentum.

Teucri, a name given to the Trojans, from Teucer their king. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 1, lis. 42 & 239.

Teucria, a name given to Troy, from Teucer one of its kings. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 2, li. 26.

Teucteri, a people of Germany, at the east of the Rhine. Tacitus, Germania, ch. 22.

Teumessus, a mountain of Bœotia with a village of the same name, where Hercules, when young, killed an enormous lion. Statius, Thebaid, bk. 1, li. 331.

Teuta, a queen of Illyricum, B.C. 231, who ordered some Roman ambassadors to be put to death. This unprecedented murder was the cause of a war, which ended in her disgrace. Florus, bk. 2, ch. 5.—Pliny, bk. 34, ch. 6.

Teutamias, or Teutamis, a king of Larissa. He instituted games in honour of his father, where Perseus killed his grandfather Acrisius with a quoit.

Teutamus, a king of Assyria, the same as Tithonus the father of Memnon. Diodorus, bk. 5.

Teutas, or Teutates, a name of Mercury among the Gauls. The people offered human victims to this deity. Lucan, bk. 1, li. 445.—Cæsar, Gallic War.

Teuthrania, a part of Mysia where the Caycus rises.

Teuthras, a king of Mysia on the borders of the Caycus. He adopted as his daughter, or, according to others, married, Auge the daughter of Aleus, when she fled away into Asia from her father, who wished to punish her for her amours with Hercules. Some time after his kingdom was invaded by Idas the son of Aphareus, and to remove this enemy, he promised Auge and his crown to any one who could restore tranquillity to his subjects. This was executed by Telephus, who afterwards proved to be the son of Auge, who was promised in marriage to him by right of his successful expedition. The 50 daughters of Teuthras, who became mothers by Hercules, are called Teuthrantia turba. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 7, &c.—Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 25.—Ovid, Tristia, bk. 2, li. 19; Heroides, poem 9, li. 51.—Hyginus, fable 100.——A river’s name.——One of the companions of Æneas in Italy. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 402.

Teutoburgiensis saltus, a forest of Germany, between the Ems and Lippa, where Varus and his legions were cut to pieces. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 1, ch. 60.

Teutomatus, a prince of Gaul, among the allies of Rome.

Teutŏni and Teutŏnes, a people of Germany, who with the Cimbri made incursions upon Gaul, and cut to pieces two Roman armies. They were at last defeated by the consul Marius, and an infinite number made prisoners. See: Cimbri. Cicero, On Pompey’s Command.—Florus, bk. 3, ch. 3.—Plutarch, Caius Marius.—Martial, bk. 14, ltr. 26.—Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 14.

Thabenna, an inland town of Africa, African War, ch. 77.

Thabusium, a fortified place of Phrygia. Livy, bk. 38, ch. 14.

Thais, a famous courtesan of Athens, who accompanied Alexander in his Asiatic conquests, and gained such an ascendancy over him, that she made him burn the royal palace of Persepolis. After Alexander’s death, she married Ptolemy king of Egypt. Menander celebrated her charms both mental and personal, which were of a superior nature, and on this account she is called Menandrea by Propertius, bk. 2, poem 6.—Ovid, Ars Amatoria, bk. 3, li. 604; Remedia Amoris, li. 384.—Plutarch, Alexander.—Juvenal, satire 3, li. 93.—Athenæus, bk. 13, ch. 13.

Thala, a town of Africa. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 3, ch. 21.

Thalăme, a town of Messenia, famous for a temple and oracle of Pasiphae. Plutarch, Agis.

Thalassius, a beautiful young Roman in the reign of Romulus. At the rape of the Sabines, one of these virgins appeared remarkable for beauty and elegance, and her ravisher, afraid of many competitors, exclaimed, as he carried her away, that it was for Thalassius. The name of Thalassius was no sooner mentioned, than all were eager to preserve so beautiful a prize for him. Their union was attended with so much happiness, that it was ever after usual at Rome to make use of the word Thalassius at nuptials, and to wish those that were married the felicity of Thalassius. He is supposed by some to be the same as Hymen, as he was made a deity. Plutarch, Romulus.—Martial, bk. 3, ltr. 92.—Livy, bk. 1, ch. 9.

Thales, one of the seven wise men of Greece, born at Miletus in Ionia. He was descended from Cadmus: his father’s name was Examius, and his mother’s Cleobula. Like the rest of the ancients, he travelled in quest of knowledge, and for some time resided in Crete, Phœnicia, and Egypt. Under the priests of Memphis he was taught geometry, astronomy, and philosophy, and enabled to measure with exactness the vast height and extent of a pyramid merely by its shadow. His discoveries in astronomy were great and ingenious; and he was the first who calculated with accuracy a solar eclipse. He discovered the solstices and equinoxes, he divided the heavens into five zones, and recommended the division of the year into 365 days, which was universally adopted by the Egyptian philosophy. Like Homer, he looked upon water as the principle of everything. He was the founder of the Ionic sect, which distinguished itself for its deep and abstruse speculations under the successors and pupils of the Milesian philosopher, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, and Archelaus the master of Socrates. Thales was never married; and when his mother pressed him to choose a wife, he said he was too young. The same exhortations were afterwards repeated, but the philosopher eluded them by observing that he was then too old to enter the matrimonial state. He died in the 96th year of his age, about 548 years before the christian era. His compositions on philosophical subjects are lost. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 7.—Plato.—Diogenes Laërtius, bk. 1.—Cicero, de Natura Deorum, &c.——A lyric poet of Crete, intimate with Lycurgus. He prepared by his rhapsodies the minds of the Spartans to receive the rigorous institutions of his friend, and inculcated a reverence for the peace of civil society.

Thalestria, or Thalestris, a queen of the Amazons, who, accompanied by 300 women, came 35 days’ journey to meet Alexander in his Asiatic conquests, to raise children by a man whose fame was so great, and courage so uncommon. Curtius, bk. 6, ch. 5.—Strabo, bk. 11.—Justin, bk. 2, ch. 4.

Thaletes, a Greek poet of Crete, 900 B.C.

Thălīa, one of the Muses, who presided over festivals, and over pastoral and comic poetry. She is represented leaning on a column, holding a mask in her right hand, by which she is distinguished from her sisters, as also by a shepherd’s crook. Her dress appears shorter, and not so ornamented as that of the other Muses. Horace, bk. 4, ode 6, li. 25.—Martial, bk. 9, ltr. 75.—Plutarch, Convivium Septem Sapientium, &c.—Virgil, Eclogues, poem 6, li. 2.——One of the Nereides. Hesiod, Theogony.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 826.——An island in the Tyrrhene sea.

Thallo, one of the Horæ or Seasons, who presided over the spring. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 35.

Thalpius, a son of Eurytus, one of Helen’s suitors. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 10.

Thalyssia, Greek festivals celebrated by the people of the country in honour of Ceres, to whom the first fruits were regularly offered. Scholia on Theocritus, poem 3.

Thamĭras, a Cilician who first introduced the art of augury in Cyprus, where it was religiously preserved in his family for many years. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 2, ch. 3.

Thamuda, a part of Arabia Felix.

Thamyras, or Thamyris, a celebrated musician of Thrace. His father’s name was Philammon, and his mother’s Argiope. He became enamoured of the Muses, and challenged them to a trial of skill. His challenge was accepted, and it was mutually agreed that the conqueror should be totally at the disposal of his victorious adversary. He was conquered, and the Muses deprived him of his eyesight and his melodious voice, and broke his lyre. His poetical compositions are lost. Some accused him of having first introduced into the world the unnatural vice of which Sotades is accused. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2, li. 594; bk. 5, li. 599.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 3.—Ovid, Amores, bk. 3, poem 7, li. 62; Ars Amatoria, bk. 3, li. 399.—Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 33.

Thamyris, one of the petty princes of the Dacæ, in the age of Darius, &c.——A queen of the Massagetæ. See: Thomyris.——A Trojan killed by Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 12, li. 341.

Thapsăcus, a city on the Euphrates.

Thapsus, a town of Africa Propria, where Scipio and Juba were defeated by Cæsar. Silius Italicus, bk. 3, li. 261.—Livy, bk. 29, ch. 30; bk. 33, ch. 48.——A town at the north of Syracuse in Sicily.

Thargelia, festivals in Greece, in honour of Apollo and Diana. They lasted two days, and the youngest of both sexes carried olive branches, on which were suspended cakes and fruits. Athenæus, bk. 12.

Thariădes, one of the generals of Antiochus, &c.

Tharops, the father of Œager, to whom Bacchus gave the kingdom of Thrace, after the death of Lycurgus. Diodorus, bk. 4.

Thasius, or Thrasius, a famous soothsayer of Cyprus, who told Busiris king of Egypt, that to stop a dreadful plague which afflicted his country, he must offer a foreigner to Jupiter. Upon this the tyrant ordered him to be seized and sacrificed to the god, as he was not a native of Egypt. Ovid, de Ars Amatoria, bk. 1, li. 549.——A surname of Hercules, who was worshipped at Thasos.

Thasos, or Thasus, a small island in the Ægean, on the coast of Thrace, opposite the mouth of the Nestus, anciently known by the name of Æria, Odonis, Æthria, Acte, Ogygia, Chryse, and Ceresis. It received that of Thasos from Thasus the son of Agenor, who settled there when he despaired of finding his sister Europa. It was about 40 miles in circumference, and so uncommonly fruitful, that the fertility of Thasos became proverbial. Its wine was universally esteemed, and its marble quarries were also in great repute, as well as its mines of gold and silver. The capital of the island was also called Thasos. Livy, bk. 33, chs. 30 & 55.—Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 44.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 25.—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 4, &c.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 2, li. 91.—Cornelius Nepos, Cimon, ch. 2.

Thasus, a son of Neptune, who went with Cadmus to seek Europa. He built the town of Thasus in Thrace. Some make him brother of Cadmus. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 1.

Thaumaci, a town of Thessaly on the Maliac gulf. Livy, bk. 32, ch. 4.

Thaumantias and Thaumantis, a name given to Iris the messenger of Juno, because she was the daughter of Thaumas the son of Oceanus and Terra by one of the Oceanides. Hesiod, Theogony.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 5.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, li. 479; bk. 14, li. 845.

Thaumas, a son of Neptune and Terra, who married Electra, one of the Oceanides, by whom he had Iris and the ♦Harpies, &c. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 2.

♦ ‘Harpyies’ replaced with ‘Harpies’

Thaumasius, a mountain of Arcadia, on whose top, according to some accounts, Jupiter was born.

Thea, a daughter of Uranus and Terra. She married her brother Hyperion, by whom she had the sun, the moon, Aurora, &c. She is also called Thia, Titæa, Rhea, Tethys, &c.——One of the Sporades.

Theagĕnes, a man who made himself master of Megara, &c.——An athlete of Thaos, famous for his strength. His father’s name was Timosthenes, a friend of Hercules. He was crowned above 1000 times at the public games of the Greeks, and became a god after death. Pausanias, bk. 6, chs. 6 & 11.—Plutarch.——A Theban officer, who distinguished himself at the battle of Cheronæa. Plutarch.——A writer who published commentaries on Homer’s works.

Theages, a Greek philosopher, disciple of Socrates. Plato.—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 4, &c.

Theangela, a town of Caria.

Theāno, the wife of Metapontus son of Sisyphus, presented some twins to her husband, when he wished to repudiate her for her barrenness. The children were educated with the greatest care, and some time afterwards Theano herself became the mother of twins. When they were grown up she encouraged them to murder the supposititious children, who were to succeed to their father’s throne in preference to them. They were both killed in the attempt, and the father, displeased with the conduct of Theano, repudiated her to marry the mother of the children whom he had long considered as his own. Hyginus, fable 186.——A daughter of Cisseus, sister to Hecuba, who married Antenor, and was supposed to have betrayed the Palladium to the Greeks, as she was priestess of Minerva. Homer, Iliad, bk. 6, li. 298.—Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 27.—Dictys Cretensis, bk. 5, ch. 8.——One of the Danaides. Her husband’s name was Phantes. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 1.——The wife of the philosopher Pythagoras, daughter of Pythanax of Crete, or, according to others, of Brontinus of Crotona. Diogenes Laërtius, bk. 8, ch. 42.——The daughter of Pythagoras.——A poetess of Locris.——A priestess of Athens, daughter of Menon, who refused to pronounce a curse upon Alcibiades when he was accused of having mutilated all the statues of Mercury. Plutarch.——The mother of Pausanias. She was the first, as it is reported, who brought a stone to the entrance of Minerva’s temple, to shut up her son when she heard of his crimes and perfidy to his country. Polyænus, bk. 8.——A daughter of Scedasus, to whom some of the Lacedæmonians offered violence at Leuctra.——A Trojan matron, who became mother of Mimas by Amycus, the same night that Paris was born. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 703.

Theānum, a town of Italy. See: Teanum.

Thearidas, a brother of Dionysius the elder. He was made admiral of his fleet. Diodorus, bk. 14.

Thearius, a surname of Apollo at Trœzene. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 51.

Theatetes, a Greek epigrammatist.

Theba, or Thebe, a town of Cilicia. See: Thebæ.

Thebæ (arum), a celebrated city, the capital of Bœotia, situate on the banks of the river Ismenus. The manner of its foundation is not precisely known. Cadmus is supposed to have first begun to found it by building the citadel Cadmea. It was afterwards finished by Amphion and Zethus; but, according to Varro, it owed its origin to Ogyges. The government of Thebes was monarchical, and many of the sovereigns are celebrated for their misfortunes, such as Laius, Œdipus, Polynices, Eteocles, &c. The war which Thebes supported against the Argives, is famous as well as that of the Epigoni. The Thebans were looked upon as an indolent and sluggish nation, and the words of Theban pig, became proverbial to express a man remarkable for stupidity and inattention. This, however, was not literally true; under Epaminondas, the Thebans, though before dependent, became masters of Greece, and everything was done according to their will and pleasure. When Alexander invaded Greece, he ordered Thebes to be totally demolished, because it had revolted against him, except the house where the poet Pindar had been born and educated. In this dreadful period 6000 of its inhabitants were slain, and 30,000 sold for slaves. Thebes was afterwards repaired by Cassander the son of Antipater, but it never rose to its original consequence, and Strabo, in his age, mentions it merely as an inconsiderable village. The monarchical government was abolished there at the death of Xanthus, about 1190 years before Christ, and Thebes became a republic. It received its name from Thebe the daughter of Asopus, to whom the founder Amphion was nearly related. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 4, &c.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 3.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 6; bk. 9, ch. 5.—Strabo, bk. 9.—Plutarch, Pelopidas, Pelopidas, & Alexander.—Cornelius Nepos, Pelopidas, Epaminondas, &c.—Horace, Art of Poetry, li. 394.—Ovid, Metamorphoses.——A town at the south of Troas, built by Hercules, and also called Placia and Hypoplacia. It fell into the hands of the Cilicians, who occupied it during the Trojan war. Curtius, bk. 3, ch. 4.—Livy, bk. 37, ch. 19.—Strabo, bk. 11.——An ancient celebrated city of Thebais in Egypt, called also Hecatompylos, on account of its 100 gates, and Diospolis, as being sacred to Jupiter. In the time of its splendour, it extended above 23 miles, and upon any emergency could send into the field, by each of its 100 gates, 20,000 fighting men and 200 chariots. Thebes was ruined by Cambyses king of Persia, and few traces of it were seen in the age of Juvenal. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 9.—Juvenal, satire bk. 15, li. 16.—Tacitus, Annals, bk. 2.—Herodotus, bks. 2 & 3.—Diodorus, bk. 2.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 9, li. 381.—Strabo, bk. 17.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 9.——A town of Africa, built by Bacchus.——Another in Thessaly. Livy, bk. 28, ch. 7.——Another in Phthiotis.

Thebais, a country in the southern parts of Egypt, of which Thebes was the capital.——There have been some poems which have borne the name of Thebais, but of these the only one extant is the Thebais of Statius. It gives an account of the war of the Thebans against the Argives, in consequence of the dissension of Eteocles with his brother Polynices. The poet was 12 years in composing it.——A river of Lydia.——A name given to a native of Thebes.

Thebe, a daughter of the Asopus, who married Zethus. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 5.—Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 5.——The wife of Alexander tyrant of Pheræ. She was persuaded by Pelopidas to murder her husband.

Theia, a goddess. See: Thea.

Theias, a son of Belus, who had an incestuous intercourse with his daughter Smyrna.

Thelephassa, the second wife of Agenor, called also Telaphassa.

Thelpūsa, a nymph of Arcadia. See: ♦Telphusa.

♦ ‘Telpusa’ replaced with ‘Telphusa’

Thelxion, a son of Apis, who conspired against his father, who was king of Peloponnesus. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 5.—Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 1.

Thelxiope, one of the Muses, according to some writers. Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum.

Themeneus, a son of Aristomachus, better known by the name of Temenus.

Themesion, a tyrant of Eretria. Diodorus, bk. 15.