Teucri, a name given to the Trojans, from Teucer their king. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 1, lis. 42 & 239.
Teucria, a name given to Troy, from Teucer one of its kings. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 2, li. 26.
Teucteri, a people of Germany, at the east of the Rhine. Tacitus, Germania, ch. 22.
Teumessus, a mountain of Bœotia with a village of the same name, where Hercules, when young, killed an enormous lion. Statius, Thebaid, bk. 1, li. 331.
Teuta, a queen of Illyricum, B.C. 231, who ordered some Roman ambassadors to be put to death. This unprecedented murder was the cause of a war, which ended in her disgrace. Florus, bk. 2, ch. 5.—Pliny, bk. 34, ch. 6.
Teutamias, or Teutamis, a king of Larissa. He instituted games in honour of his father, where Perseus killed his grandfather Acrisius with a quoit.
Teutamus, a king of Assyria, the same as Tithonus the father of Memnon. Diodorus, bk. 5.
Teutas, or Teutates, a name of Mercury among the Gauls. The people offered human victims to this deity. Lucan, bk. 1, li. 445.—Cæsar, Gallic War.
Teuthrania, a part of Mysia where the Caycus rises.
Teuthras, a king of Mysia on the borders of the Caycus. He adopted as his daughter, or, according to others, married, Auge the daughter of Aleus, when she fled away into Asia from her father, who wished to punish her for her amours with Hercules. Some time after his kingdom was invaded by Idas the son of Aphareus, and to remove this enemy, he promised Auge and his crown to any one who could restore tranquillity to his subjects. This was executed by Telephus, who afterwards proved to be the son of Auge, who was promised in marriage to him by right of his successful expedition. The 50 daughters of Teuthras, who became mothers by Hercules, are called Teuthrantia turba. Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 7, &c.—Pausanias, bk. 3, ch. 25.—Ovid, Tristia, bk. 2, li. 19; Heroides, poem 9, li. 51.—Hyginus, fable 100.——A river’s name.——One of the companions of Æneas in Italy. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 402.