Theocritus of Syracuse.
Longfellow, The Wayside Inn (prelude 1863).
Theocritus (The Scotch), Allan Ramsay, author of The Gentle Shepherd (1685-1758).
Theocritus (The Sicilian), Giovanni Meli, of Palermo, immortalized by his eclogues and idylls (1740-1815).
Theod´ofred, heir to the Spanish throne, but incapacitated from reigning, because he had been blinded by Witiza. Theodofred was the son of Chindasuintho, and father of King Roderick. As Witiza, the usurper, had blinded Theodofred, so Roderick dethroned and blinded Witiza.--Southey, Roderick, etc. (1814).
⁂ In mediæval times no one with any personal defect was allowed to reign and one of the most ordinary means of disqualifying a prince for succeeding to a throne was to put out his eyes. Of course, the reader will call to mind the case of Prince Arthur, the nephew of King John; and scores of other instances in Italian, French, Spanish, German, Russian, and Scandinavian history.
Theod´omas, a famous trumpeter at the siege of Thebes.
At every court ther cam loud menstralcye
That never trompêd Joab for to heere,
Ne he Theodomas yit half so cleere