The lip of Tantalus.” Milton.
Tar′tarus. An inner region of hell, to which the gods sent the exceptionally depraved.
Telchi′nes. Priests of Cybele, who were famous magicians.
Tel′lus. A name of Cybele, wife of Saturn.
Tempests, see Fro.
Temple. An edifice erected to the honour of a god or goddess in which the sacrifices were offered.
Tenth Muse. Sappho was so called.
Ter′eus was a son of Mars. He married Progne, daughter of the king of Athens, but became enamoured of her sister Philomela, who, however, resented his attentions, which so enraged him that he cut out her tongue. When Progne heard of her husband’s unfaithfulness she took a terrible revenge (see Itys). Progne was turned into a swallow, Philomela into a nightingale, Itys into a pheasant, and Tereus into a hoopoo, a kind of vulture, some say an owl.
Tergemi′na. A name of Diana, alluding to her triform divinity as goddess of heaven, earth, and hell.
Ter′minus. The Roman god of boundaries.