Thu´rio, a foolish rival of Valentine for the love of Silvia, daughter of the duke of Milan.--Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1595).
Thwacker (Quartermaster), in the dragoons.--Sir W. Scott, Redgauntlet (time, George III.).
Thwackum, in Fielding’s novel, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749).
Thyamis, an Egyptian thief, native of Memphis. Theagĕnês and Chariclēa being taken by him prisoners, he fell in love with the lady, and shut her up in a cave for fear of losing her. Being closely beset by another gang stronger than his own, he ran his sword into the heart of Chariclea, that she might go with him into the land of shadows, and be his companion in the future life.--Heliodorus, Æthiopica.
Like to the Egyptian thief, at point of death,
Kill what I love.
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, act v. sc. 1 (1614).
Thyeste´an Banquet (in Latin cæna Thyestæ), a cannibal feast. Thyestês was given his own two sons to eat in a banquet served up to him by his brother, Atreus [At.truce].
Procnê and Philomēla served up to Tereus (2 syl.) his own son Itys.
⁂ Milton accents the word on the second syllable in Paradise Lost, x. 688, but then he calls Chalybe´an (Samson Agonistes, 133) “Chalyb´ean,” Æge´an (Paradise Lost, i. 745) “Æ´gean,” and Cambuscan´ he calls “Cambus´can.”