debauched Ærope the wife of his brother Atreus, because he refused
to take him as his colleague on the throne of Argos. This was no
sooner known, than Atreus divorced Ærope, and banished Thyestes
from his kingdom; but soon after, the more effectually to punish his
infidelity, he expressed a wish to be reconciled to him, and recalled
him to Argos. Thyestes was received by his brother at an elegant
entertainment, but he was soon informed that he had been feeding
upon the flesh of one of his own children. This Atreus took care
to communicate to him by showing him the remains of his son’s body.
This action appeared so barbarous, that, according to the ancient
mythologists, the sun changed his usual course, not to be a spectator
of so bloody a scene. Thyestes escaped from his brother, and fled to
Epirus. Some time after he met his daughter Pelopea in a grove sacred
to Minerva, and he offered her violence without knowing who she was.
This incest, however, according to some, was intentionally committed
by the father, as he had been told by an oracle, that the injuries he
had received from Atreus would be avenged by a son born from himself
and Pelopea. The daughter, pregnant by her father, was seen by her
uncle Atreus and married, and some time after she brought into the
world a son, whom she exposed in the woods. The life of the child
was preserved by goats; he was called Ægysthus, and presented to his
mother, and educated in the family of Atreus. When grown to years
of maturity, the mother gave her son Ægysthus a sword, which she
had taken from her unknown ravisher in the grove of Minerva, with
hopes of discovering who he was. Meantime Atreus, intent to punish
his brother, sent Agamemnon and Menelaus to pursue him, and when
at last they found him, he was dragged to Argos, and thrown into a
close prison. Ægysthus was sent to murder Thyestes, but the father
recollected the sword, which was raised to stab him, and a few
questions convinced him that his assassin was his own son. Pelopea
was present at this discovery, and when she found that she had
committed incest with her father, she asked Ægysthus to examine
the sword, and immediately plunged it into her own breast. Ægysthus
rushed from the prison to Atreus, with the bloody weapon, and
murdered him near an altar, as he wished to offer thanks to the gods
on the supposed death of Thyestes. At the death of Atreus, Thyestes
was placed on his brother’s throne by Ægysthus, from which he was
soon after driven by Agamemnon and Menelaus. He retired from Argos,
and was banished into the island of Cythera by Agamemnon, where he
died. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 4.――_Sophocles_, _Ajax_.――_Hyginus_,
fable 86, &c.――_Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 359.――_Lucan_, bk. 1, li. 544;
bk. 7, li. 451.――_Seneca_, _Thyestes_.
=Thymbra=, a small town of Lydia near Sardes, celebrated for a battle
which was fought there between Cyrus and Crœsus, in which the latter
was defeated. The troops of Cyrus amounted to 196,000 men, besides
chariots, and those of Crœsus were twice as numerous.――――A plain
in Troas, through which a small river, called Thymbrius, falls in
its course to the Scamander. Apollo had there a temple, and from
thence he is called _Thymbræus_. Achilles was killed there by Paris,
according to some. _Strabo_, bk. 13.――_Statius_, bk. 4, _Sylvæ_,
poem 7, li. 22.――_Dictys Cretensis_, bk. 2, ch. 52; bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Thymbræus=, a surname of Apollo. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 4, li. 323;
_Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 85. _See:_ Thymbra.
=Thymbris=, a concubine of Jupiter, said to be mother of Pan.
_Apollodorus._――――A fountain and river of Sicily. _Theocritus_,
poem 1, li. 100.
=Thymbron.= _See:_ Thimbron.
=Thymĕle=, a celebrated female dancer, favoured by Domitian. _Juvenal_,
satire 1, li. 36.――_Statius_, bk. 6, li. 36.
=Thymiathis=, a river of Epirus. _Strabo_, bk. 7.
=Thymochăres=, an Athenian defeated in a battle by the Lacedæmonians.
=Thymœtes=, a king of Athens, son of Oxinthas, the last of the
descendants of Theseus, who reigned at Athens. He was deposed because
he refused to accept a challenge sent by Xanthus king of Bœotia, and
was succeeded by a Messenian, B.C. 1128, who repaired the honour of
Athens by fighting the Bœotian king. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 18.――――A
Trojan prince, whose wife and son were put to death by order of Priam.
It was to revenge the king’s cruelty that he persuaded his countrymen
to bring the wooden horse within their city. He was son of Laomedon,
according to some. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 2, li. 32.――_Dictys
Cretensis_, bk. 4, ch. 4.――――A son of Hicetaon, who accompanied Æneas
into Italy, and was killed by Turnus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 10,
li. 123; bk. 12, li. 364.
=Thyni=, or =Bythyni=, a people of Bithynia, hence the word _Thyna merx_
applied to their commodities. _Horace_, bk. 3, ode 7, li. 3.――_Pliny_,
bk. 4, ch. 11.
=Thyodămas.= _See:_ ♦Theodamas.
♦ ‘Theodamus’ replaced with ‘Theodamas’
=Thyōne=, a name given to Semele after she had been presented with
immortality by her son Bacchus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 5.
=Thyōneus=, a surname of Bacchus from his mother Semele, who was called
_Thyone_. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 17,
li. 23.――_Ovid_, bk. 4, _Metamorphoses_, li. 13.
=Thyotes=, a priest of the Cabiri, in Samothrace. _Flaccus_, bk. 2,
li. 438.
=Thyre=, a town of the Messenians, famous for a battle fought there
between the Argives and the Lacedæmonians. _Herodotus_, bk. 1, ch. 82.
――_Statius_, _Thebaid_, bk. 4, li. 48.
=Thyrea=, an island on the coast of Peloponnesus, near Hermione.
_Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 76.
=Thyreum=, a town of Acarnania, whose inhabitants are called
_Thyrienses_. _Livy_, bk. 36, ch. 11; bk. 38, ch. 9.
=Thyreus=, a son of Lycaon king of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 3.
――――A son of Œneus king of Calydon. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 8.
=Thyrĭdes=, three small islands at the point of Tænarus. _Pliny_, bk. 4,
ch. 12.
=Thyrsagĕtæ=, a people of Sarmatia, who live upon hunting. _Pliny_,
bk. 4, ch. 12.
=Thyrsus=, a river of Sardinia, now _Oristagni_.
=Thysos=, a town near mount Athos.
=Thyus=, a satrap of Paphlagonia, who revolted from Artaxerxes, and was
seized by Datames. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Datames_.
=Tiasa=, a daughter of the Eurotas, who gave her name to a river in
Laconia. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 18.
=Tibarēni=, a people of Cappadocia, on the borders of the Thermodon.
――――A people of Pontus. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 20.
=Tiberias=, a town of Galilee, built by Herod, near a lake of the same
name, and called after Tiberius. _Pliny_, bk. 5, ch. 16.――_Josephus_,
_Antiquities_, bk. 18, ch. 3.
=Tiberīnus=, son of Capetus, and king of Alba, was drowned in the river
Albula, which on that account assumed the name of _Tiberis_, of which
he became the protecting god. _Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 3.――_Cicero_, _de
Natura Deorum_, bk. 2, ch. 20.――_Varro_, _de Lingua Latina_, bk. 4,
ch. 5, &c.――_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 2, li. 389; bk. 4, li. 47.
=Tibĕris=, =Tyberis=, =Tiber=, or =Tibris=, a river of Italy on whose
banks the city of Rome was built. It was originally called _Albula_,
from the whiteness of its waters, and afterwards Tiberis, when
Tiberinus king of Alba had been drowned there. It was also named
_Tyrrhenus_, because it watered Etruria, and _Lydius_, because the
inhabitants of the neighbourhood were supposed to be of Lydian origin.
The Tiber rises in the Apennines, and falls into the Tyrrhene sea, 16
miles below Rome, after dividing Latium from Etruria. _Ovid_, _Fasti_,
bk. 4, lis. 47, 329, &c.; bk. 5, li. 641; _Ibis_, li. 514.――_Lucan_,
bk. 1, li. 381, &c.――_Varro_, _de Lingua Latina_, bk. 4, ch. 5.
――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 30.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 2, li. 13.
――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 4.――_Livy_, bk. 1, ch. 3.
=Tibērius Claudius Drusus Nero=, a Roman emperor after the death
of Augustus, was descended from the family of the Claudii. In his
early years he commanded popularity by entertaining the populace
with magnificent shows and fights of gladiators, and he gained some
applause in the funeral oration which he pronounced over his father,
though only nine years old. His first appearance in the Roman armies
was under Augustus, in the war against the Cantabri; and afterwards,
in the capacity of general, he obtained victories in different parts
of the empire, and was rewarded with a triumph. Yet, in the midst
of his glory, Tiberius fell under the displeasure of Augustus, and
retired to Rhodes, where he continued for seven years as an exile,
till, by the influence of his mother Livia with the emperor, he
was recalled. His return to Rome was the more glorious; he had the
command of the Roman armies in Illyricum, Pannonia, and Dalmatia,
and seemed to divide the sovereign power with Augustus. At the death
of this celebrated emperor, Tiberius, who had been adopted, assumed
the reins of government; and while with dissimulation and affected
modesty he wished to decline the dangerous office, he found time to
try the fidelity of his friends, and to make the greatest part of
the Romans believe that he was invested with the purple, not from
his own choice, but by the recommendation of Augustus, and the urgent
entreaties of the Roman senate. The beginning of his reign seemed to
promise tranquillity to the world. Tiberius was a watchful guardian
of the public peace; he was the friend of justice, and never assumed
the sounding titles which must disgust a free nation, but he was
satisfied to say of himself that he was the master of his slaves,
the general of his soldiers, and the father of the citizens of Rome.
That seeming moderation, however, which was but the fruit of the
deepest policy, soon disappeared, and Tiberius was viewed in his real
character. His ingratitude to his mother Livia, to whose intrigues
he was indebted for the purple, his cruelty to his wife Julia, and
his tyrannical oppression and murder of many noble senators, rendered
him odious to the people, and suspected even by his most intimate
favourites. The armies mutinied in Pannonia and Germany, but the
tumults were silenced by the prudence of the generals and the
fidelity of the officers, and the factious demagogues were abandoned
to their condign punishment. This acted as a check upon Tiberius in
Rome; he knew from thence, as his successors experienced, that his
power was precarious, and his very existence in perpetual danger.
He continued as he had begun, to pay the greatest deference to the
senate; all libels against him he disregarded, and he observed that,
in a free city, the thoughts and the tongue of every man should be
free. The taxes were gradually lessened, and luxury restrained by
the salutary regulations, as well as by the prevailing example and
frugality of the emperor. While Rome exhibited a scene of peace
and public tranquillity, the barbarians were severally defeated on
the borders of the empire, and Tiberius gained new honours, by the
activity and valour of Germanicus and his other faithful lieutenants.
Yet the triumphs of Germanicus were beheld with jealousy. Tiberius
dreaded his power, he was envious of his popularity, and the death of
that celebrated general in Antioch was, as some suppose, accelerated
by poison, and the secret resentment of the emperor. Not only his
relations and friends, but the great and opulent, were sacrificed
to his ambition, cruelty, and avarice; and there was scarce in Rome
one single family that did not reproach Tiberius for the loss of a
brother, a father, or a husband. He at last retired to the island of
Capreæ, on the coast of Campania, where he buried himself in unlawful
pleasures. The care of the empire was entrusted to favourites, among
whom Sejanus for a while shone with uncommon splendour. In this
solitary retreat the emperor proposed rewards to such as invented
new pleasures, or could produce fresh luxuries. He forgot his age,
as well as his dignity, and disgraced himself by the most unnatural
vices and enormous indulgencies, which can draw a blush even upon the
countenance of the most debauched and abandoned. While the emperor
was lost to himself and the world, the provinces were harassed on
every side by the barbarians, and Tiberius found himself insulted
by those enemies whom hitherto he had seen fall prostrate at his
feet with every mark of submissive adulation. At last, grown weak
and helpless through infirmities, he thought of his approaching
dissolution; and as he well knew that Rome could not exist without
a head, he nominated, as his successor, Caius Caligula. Many might
inquire, why a youth naturally so vicious and abandoned as Caius was
chosen to be the master of an extensive empire; but Tiberius wished
his own cruelties to be forgotten in the barbarities which might be
displayed in the reign of his successor, whose natural propensities
he had well defined, in saying of Caligula that he bred a serpent for
the Roman people, and a Phaeton for the rest of the empire. Tiberius
died at Misenum the 16th of March, A.D. 37, in the 78th year of his
age, after a reign of 22 years, six months, and 26 days. Caligula was
accused of having hastened his end by suffocating him. The joy was
universal when his death was known; and the people of Rome, in the
midst of sorrow, had a moment to rejoice, heedless of the calamities
which awaited them in the succeeding reigns. The body of Tiberius was
conveyed to Rome, and burnt with great solemnity. A funeral oration
was pronounced by Caligula, who seemed to forget his benefactor while
he expatiated on the praises of Augustus, Germanicus, and his own.
The character of Tiberius has been examined with particular attention
by historians, and his reign is the subject of the most perfect
and elegant of all the compositions of Tacitus. When a private man,
Tiberius was universally esteemed; when he had no superior, he was
proud, arrogant, jealous, and revengeful. If he found his military
operations conducted by a warlike general, he affected moderation and
virtue; but when he got rid of the powerful influence of a favourite,
he was tyrannical and dissolute. If, as some observe, he had lived
in the times of the Roman republic, he might have been as conspicuous
as his great ancestors; but the sovereign power lodged in his hands,
rendered him vicious and oppressive. Yet, though he encouraged
informers and favoured flattery, he blushed at the mean servilities
of the senate, and derided the adulation of his courtiers, who
approached him, he said, as if they approached a savage elephant.
He was a patron of learning; he was an eloquent and ready speaker,
and dedicated some part of his time to study. He wrote a lyric
poem, entitled, “A Complaint on the death of Lucius Cæsar,” as also
some Greek pieces in imitation of some of his favourite authors. He
avoided all improper expressions, and all foreign words he totally
wished to banish from the Latin tongue. As instances of his humanity,
it has been recorded that he was uncommonly liberal to the people of
Asia Minor, whose cities had been destroyed by a violent earthquake,
A.D. 17. One of his officers wished him to increase the taxes. “No,”
said Tiberius; “a good shepherd must shear, not flay, his sheep.” The
senators wished to call the month of November, in which he was born,
by his name, in imitation of Julius Cæsar and Augustus, in the months
of July and August; but this he refused, saying, “What will you do,
conscript fathers, if you have thirteen Cæsars?” Like the rest of
the emperors, he received divine honours after death, and even during
his life. It has been wittily observed by Seneca, that he never was
intoxicated but once all his life, for he continued in a perpetual
state of intoxication from the time he gave himself to drinking till
the last moment of his life. _Suetonius_, _Lives_, &c.――_Tacitus_,
_Annals_, bk. 6, &c.――_Dio Cassius._――――A friend of Julius Cæsar,
whom he accompanied in the war of Alexandria. Tiberius forgot the
favours he had received from his friend; and when he was assassinated,
he wished all his murderers to be publicly rewarded.――――One of the
Gracchi. _See:_ Gracchus.――――Sempronius, a son of Drusus and Livia
the sister of Germanicus, put to death by Caligula.――――A son of
Brutus, put to death by his father, because he had conspired with
other young noblemen to restore Tarquin to his throne.――――A Thracian
made emperor of Rome in the latter ages of the empire.
=Tibēsis=, a river of Scythia, flowing from mount Hæmus into the Ister.
_Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 49.
=Tibiscus=, now _Teisse_, a river of Dacia, with a town of the same
name, now _Temeswar_. It falls into the Danube.
=Tibris=. _See:_ Tiberis.
=Tibŭla=, a town of Sardinia, now _Lango Sardo_.
=Tibullus Aulus Albius=, a Roman knight celebrated for his poetical
compositions. He followed Messala Corvinus into the island of Corcyra,
but he was soon dissatisfied with the toils of war, and retired
to Rome, where he gave himself up to literary ease, and to all the
effeminate indolence of an Italian climate. His first composition
was to celebrate the virtues of his friend Messala; but his more
favourite study was writing love verses, in praise of his mistresses
Delia and Plautia, of Nemesis and Neæra, and in these elegant
effusions he showed himself the most correct of the Roman poets. As
he had espoused the cause of Brutus, he lost his possessions when the
soldiers of the triumvirate were rewarded with lands; but he might
have recovered them if he had condescended, like Virgil, to make
his court to Augustus. Four books of elegies are the only remaining
pieces of his composition. They are uncommonly elegant and beautiful,
and possessed with so much grace and purity of sentiment, that the
writer is deservedly ranked as the prince of elegiac poets. Tibullus
was intimate with the literary men of his age, and for some time
he had a poetical contest with Horace, in gaining the favours of an
admired courtesan. Ovid has written a beautiful elegy on the death of
his friend. The poems of Tibullus are generally published with those
of Propertius and Catullus, of which the best editions are that of
Vulpius, Patavii, 1737, 1749, 1755; that of Barbou, 12mo, Paris, 1755;
and that by Heyne, 8vo, Lipscomb, 1776. _Ovid_, bk. 3, _Amores_, poem
9; _Tristia_, bk. 2, li. 487.――_Horace_, bk. 1, ltr. 4; bk. 1, ode 33,
li. 1.――_Quintilian_, bk. 10, ch. 1.
=Tibur=, an ancient town of the Sabines, about 20 miles north of
Rome, built, as some say, by Tiburtus the son of Amphiaraus. It was
watered by the Anio, and Hercules was the chief deity of the place,
from which circumstance it has been called _Herculei muri_. In the
neighbourhood, the Romans, on account of the salubrity of the air,
had their several villas where they retired; and there also Horace
had his favourite country seat, though some place it nine miles
higher. _Strabo_, bk. 5.――_Cicero_, bk. 2, _Orations_, ch. 65.
――_Suetonius_, _Caligula_, ch. 21.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 630.
――_Horace_, bk. 3, ode 4, &c.――_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 6, li. 61, &c.
=Lucius Tiburtius=, a centurion in Cæsar’s army, wounded by Pompey’s
soldiers.
=Tiburtus=, the founder of Tibur, often called _Tiburtia mænia_. He was
one of the sons of Amphiaraus. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 7, li. 670.
=Tichis=, now _Tech_, a river of Spain, falling into the Mediterranean.
=Tichius=, a name given to the top of mount Œta. _Livy_, bk. 36, ch. 16.
=Ticĭda=, a Roman poet a few years before the age of Cicero, who wrote
epigrams, and praised his mistress Metella under the fictitious name
of Petilla. _Ovid_, _Tristia_, bk. 2, li. 433.
=Ticīnus=, now _Tesino_, a river near _Ticinum_, a small town of Italy,
where the Romans were defeated by Annibal. The town of Ticinum was
also called _Pavia_. The Ticinus falls into the Po. _Strabo_, bk. 5.
――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 4, li. 81.
=Tidius=, a man who joined Pompey, &c.
=Tiessa=, a river of Laconia, falling into the Eurotas. _Pausanias_,
bk. 3, ch. 18.
=Tifāta=, a mountain of Campania, near Capua. _Statius_, _Sylvæ_, bk. 4.
=Tifernum=, a name common to three towns of Italy. One of them, for
distinction’s sake, is called _Metaurense_, near the Metaurus,
in Umbria; the other, _Tiberinum_, on the Tiber; and the third,
_Samniticum_, in the country of the Sabines. _Livy_, bk. 10, ch. 14.
――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 14.――_Pliny_, Sect. 4, ltr. 1.
=Tifernus=, a mountain and river in the country of the Samnites.
_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 11.――_Livy_, bk. 10, ch. 30.――_Mela_, bk. 3,
ch. 4.
=Tigasis=, a son of Hercules.
=Tigellīnus=, a Roman celebrated for his intrigues and perfidy
in the court of Nero. He was appointed judge at the trial of the
conspirators who had leagued against Nero, for which he was liberally
rewarded with triumphal honours. He afterwards betrayed the emperor,
and was ordered to destroy himself, 68 A.D. _Tacitus_, _Histories_,
bk. 1, ch. 72.――_Plutarch._――_Juvenal_, satire 1.
=Tigellius=, a native of Sardinia, who became the favourite of Julius
Cæsar, of Cleopatra and Augustus, by his mimicry and facetiousness.
He was celebrated for the melody of his voice, yet he was of a mean
and ungenerous disposition, and of unpleasing manners, as _Horace_,
bk. 1, satire 2, li. 3 _et seq._ insinuates.
=Tigrānes=, a king of Armenia, who made himself master of Assyria and
Cappadocia. He married Cleopatra the daughter of Mithridates, and by
the advice of his father-in-law, he declared war against the Romans.
He despised these distant enemies, and even ordered the head of the
messenger to be cut off who first told him that the Roman general
was boldly advancing towards his capital. His pride, however, was
soon abated, and though he ordered the Roman consul Lucullus to be
brought alive into his presence, he fled with precipitation from his
capital, and was soon after defeated near mount Taurus. This totally
disheartened him; he refused to receive Mithridates into his palace,
and even set a price upon his head. His mean submission to Pompey,
the successor of Lucullus in Asia, and a bribe of 60,000 talents,
insured him on his throne, and he received a garrison in his capital,
and continued at peace with the Romans. His second son of the same
name revolted against him, and attempted to dethrone him with the
assistance of the king of Parthia, whose daughter he had married.
This did not succeed, and the son had recourse to the Romans, by whom
he was put in possession of Sophene, while the father remained quiet
on the throne of Armenia. The son was afterwards sent in chains to
Rome, for his insolence to Pompey. _Cicero_, _On Pompey’s Command_.
――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 5, ch. 1.――_Paterculus_, bk. 2, chs. 33 &
37.――_Justin_, bk. 40, chs. 1 & 2.――_Plutarch_, _Lucullus_, _Pompey_,
&c.――――A king of Armenia in the reign of Tiberius. He was put to
death. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 6, ch. 40.――――One of the royal
family of the Cappadocians, chosen by Tiberius to ascend the throne
of Armenia.――――A general of the Medes.――――A man appointed king of
Armenia by Nero. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 14, ch. 26.――――A prince of
Armenia in the age of Theodosius.
=Tigranocerta=, now _Sered_, the capital of Armenia, was built by
Tigranes, during the Mithridatic war, on a hill between the springs
of the Tigris and mount Taurus. Lucullus, during the Mithridatic war,
took it with difficulty, and found in it immense riches, and no less
than 8000 talents in ready money. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 15, ch. 4.
――_Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 9.
=Tigres=, a river of Peloponnesus, called also _Harpys_, from a person
of the same name drowned in it. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.
=Tigris=, now _Basilensa_, a river of Asia, rising on mount Niphates
in Armenia, and falling into the Persian gulf. It is the eastern
boundary of Mesopotamia. The Tigris now falls into the Euphrates,
though in the age of Pliny the two separate channels of these rivers
could be easily traced. _Pliny_, bk. 6, ch. 27.――_Justin_, bk. 42,
ch. 3.――_Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 256.
=Tigurīni=, a warlike people among the Helvetii, now forming the modern
cantons of _Switz_, _Zurich_, _Schaffhausen_, and _St. Gall_. Their
capital was Tigurnum. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_.
=Tilatæi=, a people of Thrace. _Thucydides_, bk. 2.
=Tilavemptus=, a river of Italy falling into the Adriatic at the west
of Aquileia.
=Tilfossius=, a mountain of Bœotia.――――Also a fountain at the tomb of
Tiresias. _Pausanias_, _Bœotia_, ch. 33.
=Tilium=, a town of Sardinia, now _Argentera_.
=Tillius Cimber.= _See:_ Tullius.
=Tilox=, a north-west cape of Corsica.
=Tilphussus=, a mountain of Bœotia.
=Timachus=, a river of Mœsia falling into the Danube. The neighbouring
people were called Timachi. _Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 26.
=Timæ=, the wife of Agis king of Sparta, was debauched by Alcibiades,
by whom she had a son. This child was rejected in the succession
to the throne, though Agis, on his death-bed, declared him to be
legitimate. _Plutarch_, _Agesilaus_.