Of hoary Têthys raised his beamy head.
Hoole’s Ariosto, viii.
By the earth-shaking Neptune’s mace [trident],
And Têthy’s grave majestic pace.
Milton, Comus, 870 (1634).
Tetrachor´don, the title of one of Milton’s books about marriage and divorce. The word means “the four strings;” and refers to the four chief places in Scripture which bear on the subject of marriage.
A book was writ of late called Tetrachordon.
Milton, Sonnet, x.
Teucer, son of Telămon of Salămis, and brother of Telamon Ajax. He was the best archer of all the Greeks at the siege of Troy.
I may, like a second Teucer, discharge my shafts from behind the shield of my ally.--Sir W. Scott.