Theresa (Sister), with Flora M’Ivor at Carlisle.--Sir W. Scott, Waverley (time, George II.).
Theringe (Mde. de), the mother of Louise de Lascours, and grandmother of Diana de Lascours and Martha, alias Orgari´ta, “the orphan of the Frozen Sea.”--E. Stirling, The Orphan of the Frozen Sea (1856).
Thermopylæ. When Xerxes invaded Greece, Leonĭdas was sent with 300 Spartans, as a forlorn hope, to defend the pass leading from Thessaly into Locris, by which it was thought the Persian host would penetrate into Southern Greece. The Persians, however, having discovered a path over the mountains, fell on Leonidas in the rear, and the “brave defenders of the hot-gates” were cut to pieces.
Theron, the favorite dog of Roderick, the last Gothic king of Spain. When the discrowned king, dressed as a monk, assumed the name of “Father Maccabee,” although his tutor, mother, and even Florinda failed to recognize him, Theron knew him at once, fawned on him with fondest love, and would never again leave him till the faithful creature died. When Roderick saw his favorite,
He threw his arms around the dog, and cried,
While tears streamed down, “Thou, Theron, thou hast known
Thy poor lost master; Theron, none but thou!”
Southey, Roderick, etc., xv. (1814).
Thersi´tes (3 syl.), a scurrilous Grecian chief, “loquacious, loud, and coarse.” His chief delight was to inveigh against the kings of Greece. He squinted, halted, was gibbous behind and pinched before, and on his tapering head grew a few white patches of starveling down (Iliad, ii.).
His brag, as Thersītês, with elbows abroad.