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.
=Themillas=, a Trojan, &c. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 9, li. 376.
=Themis=, a daughter of Cœlus and Terra, who married Jupiter against
her own inclination. She became mother of Dice, Irene, Eunomia, the
Parcæ and Horæ; and was the first to whom the inhabitants of the
earth raised temples. Her oracle was famous in Attica in the age of
Deucalion, who consulted it with great solemnity, and was instructed
how to repair the loss of mankind. She was generally attended by the
seasons. Among the moderns she is represented as holding a sword in
one hand, and a pair of scales in the other. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 1, li. 321.――――A daughter of Ilus, who married Capys, and became
mother of Anchises. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 12.
=Themiscy̆ra=, a town of Cappadocia, at the mouth of the Thermodon,
belonging to the Amazons. The territories round it bore the same name.
=Themĭson=, a famous physician of Laodicea, disciple to Asclepiades.
He was founder of a sect called Methodists, because he wished to
introduce methods to facilitate the learning and the practice of
physic. He flourished in the Augustan age. _Pliny_, bk. 29, ch. 1.
――_Juvenal_, satire 10.――――One of the generals and ministers of
Antiochus the Great. He was born at Cyprus. _Ælian_, _Varia Historia_,
bk. 2, ch. 41.
=Themista=, or =Themistis=, a goddess, the same as Themis.
=Themistĭus=, a celebrated philosopher of Paphlagonia in the age of
Constantius, greatly esteemed by the Roman emperors, and called
_Euphrades_, the fine speaker, from his eloquent and commanding
delivery. He was made a Roman senator, and always distinguished for
his ♦liberality and munificence. His school was greatly frequented.
He wrote, when young, some commentaries on Aristotle, fragments of
which are still extant, and 33 of his orations. He professed himself
to be an enemy to flattery, and though he often deviates from this
general rule in his addresses to the emperors, yet he strongly
recommends humanity, wisdom, and clemency. The best edition of
Themistius is that of Harduin, folio, Paris, 1684.
♦ ‘liberalty’ replaced with ‘liberality’
=Themisto=, a daughter of Hypseus, was the third wife of Athamas king
of Thebes, by whom she had four sons, called Ptous, Leucon, Schœneus,
and Erythroes. She endeavoured to kill the children of Ino, her
husband’s second wife, but she killed her own, by means of Ino, who
lived in her house in the disguise of a servant-maid, and to whom she
entrusted her bloody intentions, upon which she destroyed herself.
_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 23.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.――――A woman
mentioned by Polyænus.――――The mother of the poet Homer, according to
a tradition mentioned by Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 24.