A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Thyōneus, a surname of Bacchus from his mother Semele, who was called Thyone. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 5.—Horace, bk. 1, ode 17, li. 23.—Ovid, bk. 4, Metamorphoses, li. 13.

Thyotes, a priest of the Cabiri, in Samothrace. Flaccus, bk. 2, li. 438.

Thyre, a town of the Messenians, famous for a battle fought there between the Argives and the Lacedæmonians. Herodotus, bk. 1, ch. 82.—Statius, Thebaid, bk. 4, li. 48.

Thyrea, an island on the coast of Peloponnesus, near Hermione. Herodotus, bk. 6, ch. 76.

Thyreum, a town of Acarnania, whose inhabitants are called Thyrienses. Livy, bk. 36, ch. 11; bk. 38, ch. 9.

Thyreus, a son of Lycaon king of Arcadia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 3.——A son of Œneus king of Calydon. Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 8.

Thyrĭdes, three small islands at the point of Tænarus. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.

Thyrsagĕtæ, a people of Sarmatia, who live upon hunting. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 12.

Thyrsus, a river of Sardinia, now Oristagni.

Thysos, a town near mount Athos.