Thiosa, one of the three nymphs who fed Jupiter in Arcadia. She built a town which bore her name in Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 38.
Thistie, a town of Bœotia. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 7.
Thoantium, a place on the sea coast at Rhodes.
Thoas, a king of Taurica Chersonesus, in the age of Orestes and Pylades. He would have immolated these two celebrated strangers on Diana’s altars, according to the barbarous customs of the country, had they not been delivered by Iphigenia. See: [Iphigenia]. According to some, Thoas was the son of Borysthenes. Ovid, ex Ponto, bk. 3, poem 2.——A king of Lemnos, son of Bacchus and Ariadne the daughter of Minos, and husband to Myrine. He had been made king of Lemnos by Rhadamanthus. He was still alive when the Lemnian women conspired to kill all the males in the island, but his life was spared by his only daughter [♦]Hypsipyle, in whose favour he had resigned the crown. [♦]Hypsipyle obliged her father to depart secretly from Lemnos, to escape from the fury of the women, and he arrived safe in a neighbouring island, which some call Chios, though many suppose that Thoas was assassinated by the enraged females before he had left Lemnos. Some mythologists confound the king of Lemnos with that of Chersonesus, and suppose that they were one and the same man. According to their opinion, Thoas was very young when he retired from Lemnos, and after that he went to Taurica Chersonesus, where he settled. Flaccus, bk. 8, li. 208.—Hyginus, fables 74, 120.—Ovid, Ibis, li. 384; Heroides, poem 6, li. 114.—Statius, Thebaid, bk. 6, lis. 262 & 486.—Apollonius of Rhodes, bk. 1, lis. 209 & 615.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 9; bk. 3, ch. 6.—Euripides, Iphigeneia.——A son of Andremon and Gorge the daughter of Œneus. He went to the Trojan war with 15, or rather 40 ships. Homer, Iliad, bk. 2, &c.—Dictys Cretensis, bk. 1.—Hyginus, fable 97.——A famous huntsman. Diodorus, bk. 4.——A son of Icarius. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 10.——A son of Jason and [♦]Hypsipyle queen of Lemnos. Statius, Thebaid, bk. 6, li. 342.——A son of Ornytion, grandson of Sisyphus.——A king of Assyria, father of Adonis and Myrrha, according to Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 14.——A man who made himself master of Miletus.——An officer of Ætolia, who strongly opposed the views of the Romans, and favoured the interest of Antiochus, B.C. 193.——One of the friends of Æneas in Italy, killed by Halesus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 415.
[♦] ‘Hipsipyle’ replaced with ‘Hypsipyle’ for consistency
Thoe, one of the Nereides. Hesiod, Theogony, li. 245.——One of the horses of Admetus.——One of the Amazons, &c. Valerius Flaccus, bk. 6, li. 376.
Tholus, a town of Africa.
Thomȳris, called also Tamyris, Tameris, Thamyris, and Tomeris, was queen of the Massagetæ. After her husband’s death, she marched against Cyrus, who wished to invade her territories, cut his army to pieces, and killed him on the spot. The barbarous queen ordered the head of the fallen monarch to be cut off and thrown into a vessel full of human blood, with the insulting words of satia te sanguine quem sitisti. Her son had been conquered by Cyrus before she marched herself at the head of her armies. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 205.—Justin, bk. 1, ch. 8.—Tibullus, bk. 4, poem 1, li. 143.
Thon, an Egyptian physician, &c.
Thonis, a courtesan of Egypt.