Thapsăcus, a city on the Euphrates.
Thapsus, a town of Africa Propria, where Scipio and Juba were defeated by Cæsar. Silius Italicus, bk. 3, li. 261.—Livy, bk. 29, ch. 30; bk. 33, ch. 48.——A town at the north of Syracuse in Sicily.
Thargelia, festivals in Greece, in honour of Apollo and Diana. They lasted two days, and the youngest of both sexes carried olive branches, on which were suspended cakes and fruits. Athenæus, bk. 12.
Thariădes, one of the generals of Antiochus, &c.
Tharops, the father of Œager, to whom Bacchus gave the kingdom of Thrace, after the death of Lycurgus. Diodorus, bk. 4.
Thasius, or Thrasius, a famous soothsayer of Cyprus, who told Busiris king of Egypt, that to stop a dreadful plague which afflicted his country, he must offer a foreigner to Jupiter. Upon this the tyrant ordered him to be seized and sacrificed to the god, as he was not a native of Egypt. Ovid, de Ars Amatoria, bk. 1, li. 549.——A surname of Hercules, who was worshipped at Thasos.
Thasos, or Thasus, a small island in the Ægean, on the coast of Thrace, opposite the mouth of the Nestus, anciently known by the name of Æria, Odonis, Æthria, Acte, Ogygia, Chryse, and Ceresis. It received that of Thasos from Thasus the son of Agenor, who settled there when he despaired of finding his sister Europa. It was about 40 miles in circumference, and so uncommonly fruitful, that the fertility of Thasos became proverbial. Its wine was universally esteemed, and its marble quarries were also in great repute, as well as its mines of gold and silver. The capital of the island was also called Thasos. Livy, bk. 33, chs. 30 & 55.—Herodotus, bk. 2, ch. 44.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Pausanias, bk. 5, ch. 25.—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 4, &c.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 2, li. 91.—Cornelius Nepos, Cimon, ch. 2.
Thasus, a son of Neptune, who went with Cadmus to seek Europa. He built the town of Thasus in Thrace. Some make him brother of Cadmus. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 1.
Thaumaci, a town of Thessaly on the Maliac gulf. Livy, bk. 32, ch. 4.
Thaumantias and Thaumantis, a name given to Iris the messenger of Juno, because she was the daughter of Thaumas the son of Oceanus and Terra by one of the Oceanides. Hesiod, Theogony.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 9, li. 5.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, li. 479; bk. 14, li. 845.