Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, vii. (1633).
Tisapher´nes (4 syl.), “the thunderbolt of war.” He was in the army of Egypt, and was slain by Rinaldo.--Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, xx. (1575).
⁂ This son of Mars must not be mistaken for Tissaphernês, the Persian satrap, who sided with the Spartans, in the Peloponnesian war, and who treacherously volunteered to guide “the ten thousand” back to Greece.
Tisbi´na, wife of Iroldo. Prasildo, a Babylonish nobleman, fell in love with her, and threatened to kill himself. Tisbina, to divert him, tells him if he will perform certain exploits which she deemed impossible, she will return his love. These exploits he accomplishes, and Tisbina, with Iroldo, takes poison to avoid dishonor. Prasildo discovers that the draught they have taken is harmless, and tells them so; whereupon Iroldo quits the country, and Tisbina marries Prasildo. Bojardo, Orlando Innamorato (1495). (See Dianora, and Dorigen.)
Tisellin, the raven, in the beast-epic of Reynard the Fox (1498).
Tisiph´one (4 syl.), one of the three Furies. Covered with a bloody robe, she sits day and night at hell-gate, armed with a whip. Tibullus says her head was coifed with serpents in lieu of hair.
The Desert Fairy, with her head covered with snakes, like Tisiphonê, mounted on a winged griffin.--Comtesse D’Aunoy, Fairy Tales (“The Yellow Dwarf,” 1682).
Ti´tan, the son of Hēlĭos, the child of Hyperi´on and Basil´ea, and grandson of Cœlum, or heaven. Virgil calls the sun “Titan,” and so does Ovid.
... primos crastĭnus ortus
Extulerit Titan, radiisque retexerit orbem.