THY′A, a name of Ops.
THYA′DES. Priestesses of Bacchus, who ran wild in the hills, wearing
tiger-skins and carrying torches.
THYR′SUS, a kind of javelin. See Bacchus.
TIDES, see Naryanan.
TIME (or Saturn). The husband of Virtue and father of Truth.
TISIPH′ONE. One of the Furies.
TI′TAN. Elder brother of Saturn, who made war against him, and was
ultimately vanquished by Jupiter.
TI′TANS were the supporters of Titan in his war against Saturn and
Jupiter.
TI′THO′NUS. The husband of Aurora. At the request of his wife the gods
granted him immortality, but she forgot at the same time to ask that he
should be granted perpetual youth. The consequence was that Tithonus
grew old and decrepit, while Aurora remained as fresh as the morning.
The gods, however, changed him into a grasshopper, which is supposed to
moult as it gets old, and grows young again.
TIT′YUS. A son of Jupiter. A giant who was thrown into the innermost
hell for insulting Diana. He, like Prometheus, has a vulture constantly
feeding on his ever-growing liver.
TOIL, see Atlas.
TOMBS, see Manes.
TONGUE, see Tereus.
TONITRUA′LIS. The Thunderer; a name of Jupiter.
TOWERS, see Cybele.
TRAGEDY, see Melpomene.
TREES, see Aristæus.
TRIBULATION, see Echidna.
TRIFOR′MIS, see Tergemina.
TRIPTOL′EMUS. A son of Oceanus and Terra. He was a great favourite of
the goddess Ceres, who cured him of a dangerous illness when he was
young, and afterwards taught him agriculture. She gave him her chariot,
which was drawn by dragons, in which he carried seed-corn to all the
inhabitants of the earth, and communicated the knowledge given to him
by Ceres. Cicero mentions a Triptolemus as the fourth Judge in hell.
“Triptolemus, whose useful cares intend
The common good.” POPE.
TRITERI′CA. Bacchanalian festivals.
TRI′TONS were sons of Triton, a son of Neptune and Amphitrite. They
were the trumpeters of the sea-gods, and were depicted as a sort of
mermen--the upper half of the body being like a man, and the lower half
like dolphins.
TRI′VIA. A name of Diana.
TROPHO′NIUS. One of Jupiter’s most famous oracles.
TROY. The classic poets say that the walls of this famous city were
built by the magic sound of Apollo’s lyre. See Dardanus, Helen,
Hercules, Paris.
TRUMPETERS, see Tritons.
TRUTH. A daughter of Time, because Truth is discovered in the course of
Time. Democritus says that Truth lies hidden at the bottom of a well.
TUTEL′INA. A rural divinity--the goddess of granaries.
TWO FACES, see Janus.
TYPHŒ′US, see Typhon.
TY′PHON. A monster with a hundred heads who made war against the gods,
but was crushed by Jove’s thunderbolts, and imprisoned under Mount Etna.
“... Typhon huge, ending in snaky twine.”