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.