Tybris. See: [Tiberis].——A Trojan who fought in Italy with Æneas against Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 124.
Tybur, a town of Latium on the Anio. See: [Tibur].
Tyche, one of the Oceanides. Hesiod, Theogony, li. 360.——A part of the town of Syracuse. Cicero, Against Verres, bk. 4, ch. 53.
Tychius, a celebrated artist of Hyle in Bœotia, who made Hector’s shield, which was covered with the hides of seven oxen. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 3, li. 823.—Strabo, bk. 9.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 7, li. 220.
Tyde, a town of Hispania Tarraconensis. Silius Italicus, bk. 3, li. 367.
Tydeus, a son of Œneus king of Calydon and Peribœa. He fled from his country after the accidental murder of one of his friends, and found a safe asylum in the court of Adrastus king of Argos, whose daughter Deiphyle he married. When Adrastus wished to replace his son-in-law Polynices on the throne of Thebes, Tydeus undertook to go and declare war against Eteocles, who usurped the crown. The reception he met provoked his resentment; he challenged Eteocles and his officers to single combat, and defeated them. On his return to Argos he slew 50 of the Thebans who had conspired against his life, and lay in an ambush to surprise him; and only one of the number was permitted to return to Thebes, to bear the tidings of the fate of his companions. He was one of the seven chiefs of the army of Adrastus, and during the Theban war he behaved with great courage. Many of the enemies expired under his blows, till he was at last wounded by Menalippus. Though the blow was fatal, Tydeus had the strength to dart at his enemy, and to bring him to the ground, before he was carried away from the fight by his companions. At his own request, the dead body of Menalippus was brought to him, and after he had ordered the head to be cut off, he began to tear out the brains with his teeth. The savage barbarity of Tydeus displeased Minerva, who was coming to bring him relief and to make him immortal, and the goddess left him to his fate, and suffered him to die. He was buried at Argos, where his monument was still to be seen in the age of Pausanias. He was father to Diomedes. Some suppose that the cause of his flight to Argos was the murder of the son of Melus, or, according to others, of Alcathous his father’s brother, or perhaps his own brother Olenius. Homer, Iliad, bk. 4, lis. 365, 387.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 8; bk. 3, ch. 6.—Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes.—Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 18.—Diodorus, bk. 2.—Euripides, Suppliants.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, li. 479.—Ovid, Ibis, li. 350, &c.
Tydīdes, a patronymic of Diomedes, as son of Tydeus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 1, li. 101.—Horace, bk. 1, ode 15, li. 28.
Tylos, a town of Peloponnesus near Tænarus, now Bahrain.
Tymber, a son of Daunus, who assisted Turnus. His head was cut off in an engagement by Pallas. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 10, li. 391, &c.
Tymōlus, a mountain. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 6, li. 15. See: [Tmolus].