Thoon, a Trojan chief killed by Ulysses. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 13, li. 259.——One of the giants who made war against Jupiter. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 6.
Thoosa, a sea nymph, daughter of Phorcys, and mother of Polyphemus by Neptune. Hesiod, Theogony, li. 236.—Homer, Odyssey, bk. 1, li. 71.
Thoōtes, one of the Grecian heralds.
Thoranius, a general of Metellus, killed by Sertorius. Plutarch.
Thorax, a mountain near Magnesia in Ionia, where the grammarian Daphitas was suspended on a cross for his abusive language against kings and absolute princes, whence the proverb cave a Thorace. Strabo, bk. 14.——A Lacedæmonian officer who served under Lysander, and was put to death by the Ephori. Plutarch, Lysander.——A man of Larissa, who paid much attention to the dead body of Antigonus, &c. Plutarch, Lysander, &c.
Thoria lex, agraria, by Spurius Thorius the tribune. It ordained that no person should pay any rent for the land which he possessed. It also made some regulations about grazing and pastures. Cicero, Brutus.
Thornax, a mountain of Argolis. It received its name from Thornax, a nymph who became mother of Buphagus by Japetus. The mountain was afterwards called Coccygia, because Jupiter changed himself there into a cuckoo. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 27.
Thorsus, a river of Sardinia. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 17.
Thoth, an Egyptian deity, the same as Mercury.
Thous, a Trojan chief, &c.——One of Actæon’s dogs.