And bury and consume the accursed priest.
Southey, Madoc, ii. 26 (1805).
Thaddeus of Warsaw, the hero and title of a novel by Jane Porter (1803.)
Thaddu, the father of Morna, who became the wife of Comhal and the mother of Fingal.--Ossian.
Tha´is (2 syl.), an Athenian courtezan, who induced Alexander, in his cups, to set fire to the palace of the Persian kings at Persepŏlis.
The king seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy;
Thaïs led the way to light him to his prey,
And, like another Helen, fired another Troy.
Dryden, Alexanders Feast (1697).
Thaïs´a, daughter of Simon´idês, king of Pentap´olis. She married Periclês, prince of Tyre. In her voyage to Tyre Thaïsa gave birth to a daughter, and dying, as it was supposed, in childbirth, was cast into the sea. The chest in which she was placed drifted to Ephesus, and fell into the hands of Cer´imon, a physician, who soon discovered that she was not dead. Under proper care, she entirely recovered, and became a priestess in the temple of Diana. Periclês, with his daughter and her betrothed husband, visiting the shrine of Diana, became known to each other, and the whole mystery was cleared up.--Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1608).