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THEANO (Otavá). ' 1. The most celebrated THEA'RIDES (Oeapíons), a Syracusan, son of
of the female philosophers of the Pythagorean Hermocrates and brother of Dionysius the elder,
school, appears to have been the wife of Pythagoras, tyrant of Syracuse. He is first mentioned in B. c.
and the mother by him of Telauges, Mnesarchus, 390, when he was appointed by Dionysius to
Myia, and Arignote ; but the accounts respecting succeed his brother Leptines in the command of
her were various. Some made her a daughter of the fleet. The next year he commanded an
Pythonax of Crete, others of Brontinus of Croton, expedition to the Liparaean islands, where he
while, according to others, she was the wife of captured ten ships belonging to the Rhegians.
Brontinus, and the disciple of Pythagoras. Her Again in B. c. 388 he was chosen by his brother
traditional fame for wisdom and virtue was of the to conduct the magnificent procession which Dio-
highest order, and some interesting sayings are nysius sent to the Olympic festival. (Diod. xiv
ascribed to her by Diogenes Laërtius, and by 102, 103, 109. )
[E. H. B. )
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THEMISON.
THEBE (onen). 1. A danghter of Promo | Ilippol. 737. ) She is often represented on coins
theus, from whom the Boeotian Thebes was_be- resembling the figure of Athena with a cornucopia
lieved to have derived its name. (Steph. Byz. and a pair of scules. (Gellius, xiv. 4 ; Hirt, My-
$. o. )
thol. Bilderb. p. 112 ; Müller, Anc. Art and ils
2. A daughter of Asopus and Metope, the Rem. $ 406. )
daughter of Ladon, became by Zeus the mother of 2. A daughter of Ilus and the wife of Capys, by
Zethus. She, too, is said to have given her name whom she became the mother of Anchiscs. (Apol-
to the city of Thebes. (Apollod. iii. 5. 96; Paus. lod. iii. 12. $ 2. )
(L. S. )
ii. 5. & 2, v. 22. & 5; Pind. Isthm. viii. 37 ; Diod. THEMIS or THEOMIS, the name of a poet
iv. 72. )
(L. S. ) to whom some late Greek writers ascribe the in-
THÉIA (Oela). 1. A daughter of Uranus and vention of tragedy, is probably nothing more than
Ge, one of the female Titans, becaine by Hyperion a corruption of Thespis. (Bude, Gesch. d. Hellen.
the mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene, that is, she Dicktkunst, vol. iii. pt. 1. p. 34. ) (P. S. )
was regarded as the deity from which all light THEMISON (Oeuloww). 1. A merchant of the
procceded. (Hes. Theog. 135, 371; Pind. Isthm. v. island of Thera, who, according to the Cyrenacan
1; Apollod. i. 1. § 3, 2. & 2; Catull. 66. 44. ) accounts of the foundation of their city, was the
2. A daughter of Oceanus and mother of the instrument made use of by Ftcarchus, king of Axus,
Cercopes. (Eustath. ad llom. p. 1864 ; Tzetz. ad for the destruction of his daugliter Phronimc.
Lycoph. 91. )
(L. S. ) [ETEARCH US. ] Themison, however, evaded the
THEIAS (Oclas), a king of the Assyrians, and fulfilment of the oath by which he had involuntarily
father of Smyrna, the mother of Adonis. (Apollod. bound himself to drown Phronime, and carried her
ji. 14. § 4 ; Anton. Lib. 34 ; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. in safety to Thera. (Herod. iv. 154. )
829 ; comp. Adonis. )
(L. S] 2. A tyrant of Eretria who in B. C. 366 assisted
THEIO'DAMAS (DElodáuas), the father of the exiles of Oropus in recovering possession of
1łylas, and king of the Dryopes. (Apollod. ii. 7. their native city. They succeeded in occupying it
$7; Apollon. Řhod. i. 1213, and his Schol, on i. by surprise, but the Athenians having marched
1207 ; Propert. i. 20. 6: comp. HYLAS. ) [L. S. ] against them with their whole force, Themison was
THEIODAS. [THEUDAS. ]
unable to cope with their power, and called in the
THEISOA (Osloba), one of the nymphs who Thebans to his assistance, who received possession
brought up the infant Zeus, was worshipped at of the city as a deposit, but afterwards refused to
Theisoa in Arcadia. (Paus. viii. 38. SS 3, 7, 47. $ give it up. (Diod. xv. 76 ; Xen. Hell. vii. 4. § 1;
2. )
[L. S. )
Dem. de Cor. p. 259. )
THELXION (Oertlwv), in conjunction with 3. Of Samos, a naval officer in the service of
Telchin, murdered Apis, when he attempted to Antigonus, king of Asia. In B. C. 315 we find
subjugate Peloponnesus ; but they themselves were him joining that chief in Phoenicia, with a fleet of
slain in return by Argus Panoptes. (Apollod. ii. 1. forty ships from the Hellespont, and again in 306
§ 1, &c. ) Pausanias ( ii. 5. § 5) calls him a son he is mentioned as commanding a part of the feet
of Apis and the father of Aegyrus. (L. S. ] of Demetrius, in the great sea-fight off Salamis in
THEMIS (Ofuis). 1. A daughter of Uranus Cyprus. (Diod. xix. 62, xx. 50. )
(others say Helios, Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 129) and 4. A Cyprian, who enjoyed a high place in the
Ge, was married to Zeus, by whom she became favour of Antiochus II. king of Syria, which he
the mother of the Horae, Eunomia, Dice (Astraea), had earned by the basest means as the minister
Firene, and the Moerae. (Hes. Theog. 135, 901, and companion of his abandoned pleasures. The
&c. ; Apollod. i. 3. § 1. ) In the Homeric poems, king is said to have committed to him and his
Themis is the personification of the order of things brother Aristus, the whole administration of affairs,
established by law, custom, and equity, whence she and not only presented Themison to the people on
is described as reigning in the assemblies of men public occasions in the garb of Heracles, but caused
(Od. ii. 68, &c. ), and as convening, by the com- sacrifices to be offered to him under that title.
mand of Zeus, the assembly of the gods. (Il. xx. (Athen. vii. p. 289, X. p. 438, c; Aelian. V. H
4. ) She dwells in Olympus, and is on friendly ii. 41. )
terms with Hera. (xv. 87, &c. ) This character of 5. An officer in the service of Antiochus the
Themis was recognised in the fact that at Thebes Great, who commanded the cavalry which formed
she had a sanctuary in common with the Moerae the left wing of his army at the battle of Raphia,
and Zeus Agoraeus (Paus. ix. 25. § 4), and at B. c. 217. (Polyb. v. 79, 82. ) [E. H. B. )
Olympia in common with the Horae. (Paus. v. 14. THEMISON (Oeuiow), the name of probably
8, 17. 81; comp. Diod. v. 67. ) Besides this she three physicians. 1. The founder of the ancient
is also described as an ancient prophetic divinity, medical sect of the Methodici, and one of the
and is said to have been in possession of the Del- most eminent physicians of his time, was a native
phic oracle as the successor of Ge, and previous to of Laodiceia in Syria (Pseudo-Gal. Introd. c. 4.
Apollo. (Ov. Míct. i. 321, iv. 642 ; Apollon. Rhod. vol. xiv. p. 684). He was a pupil of Asclepiades
iv. 800 ; Serv, ad Acn. iv. 246 ; Apollod. i. 4. $ 1; of Bithynia (Pliny, H. N. xxix. 5), and must
Paus, x. 5. $3 ; Aeschyl. Eum. init. ) The wor- have lived, therefore, in the first century B. C.
ship of Themis was established at Thebes, Olym- Augustin, in his Gesch. der Med. in tabellarischer
pia, Athens (Paus. i. 22. $ 1), at Tanagra (ix. 22. Form, says he was born B. C. 123, and died B. C.
§ 1), and at Troezene, where an altar was dedi- 43, which may possibly be quite correct, though he
cated to the Themides. (ii. 31. $ 8. ) Nymphs be- has not stated his reasons for giving such exact
lieved to be daughters of Zeus and Themis lived in dates. Nothing more is known of the events of
a cave on the river Eridanus (Apollod. ii. 5. $ 11; his life, except that he seems to have travelled a
Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1396 ; Hesych. s. e. good deal ; as he mentions Crete and Milan, appa-
DEHLOTiádes), and the Hesperides also are called rently as an eye-witness (ap. Cael. Aurel. De Norb.
daughters of Zeus and Themis. (Schol. ad Eurip. | Acut. iii. 18, p. 252). Neither is it certain whether
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he ever visited Rome, though it is perhaps more entitled Naranuis, which is cited by Athenacus
probable that he did so. He differed from his tutor (vi. p. 235, a).
on several points in his old age, and became the TIIEMISTA (MIOTT), of Lampsacus, the
founder of a new sect called the “ Methodici,” wife of a certain Leonteus or Leon, was a contem.
which long exercised an extensive influence on porary and correspondent of Epicurus, and was
medical science. (Cels. De Med. i. praef. p. 5; celebrated herself as a philosopher. (Diog. Laërt.
Galen, De Mch. Mod. i. 4, 7. vol. x. pp. 35, 52 ; x. 5, with the note of Menagius ; Cic. in Pison.
Cramer's Anccd. Gracca Paris, vol. i. p. 395, where 26, de Fin. ii. 21 ; Lactant. iii. 25. )
he is called by an obvious mistake Μεθήσων). He THEMISTA'GORAS (OEMLoTayópas), the ane
wrote several medical works, but in what lan-thor of a work entitled the Golden Book (xovoén
guage is not mentioned ; of these only the titles Biblos), which appears to have been partly of an
and a few fragments remain, preserved princi- historical nature. (Athen. xv. p. 681, a; Etym.
pally by Caelius Aurelianus : e. g. --1. “ Libri 8. ο. 'Αστυπαλαία. )
Periodici. ” 2. “ Epistolae," in at least nine THEMI'STIUS (Oeulotios). J. The distin-
books. 3. “ Celeres Passiones," and 4. “ Tardae guished philosopher and rhetorician, surnamed
Passiones," each in at least two books. 5. “ Liber Euphrades on account of his eloquence, was a
Salutaris. ” 6. “ De Plantagine. ” (Plin. H. N. Paphlagonian, the son of Eugenius, who was also
xxv. 39 ; Macer Flor. Dc Vir. Herv. c. 6. v. 265. ) a distinguished philosopher, and who is more than
To these works Fabricius adds one, “ De Elephan- once mentioned in the orations of Themistius. He
tiasi” (Bill. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 432, ed. vet. ), but flourished, first at Constantinople and afterwards
this is probably a mistake (see Cael. Aurel. De at Rome, in the reigns of Constantius, Julian,
Morb. Chron. iv. 1. p. 493). An account of the Jovian, Valens, Gratian, and Theodosius ; and he
doctrines of the Methodici is given in the Vic-enjoyed the favour of all those emperors, notwith-
tionary of Antiquities, and his medical opinions on standing their diversities of character and opinion,
different subjects (so far as they can be ascer- and notwithstanding the fact that he himself was
tained) may be found in Haller's Biblioth. Medic.
THEANO (Otavá). ' 1. The most celebrated THEA'RIDES (Oeapíons), a Syracusan, son of
of the female philosophers of the Pythagorean Hermocrates and brother of Dionysius the elder,
school, appears to have been the wife of Pythagoras, tyrant of Syracuse. He is first mentioned in B. c.
and the mother by him of Telauges, Mnesarchus, 390, when he was appointed by Dionysius to
Myia, and Arignote ; but the accounts respecting succeed his brother Leptines in the command of
her were various. Some made her a daughter of the fleet. The next year he commanded an
Pythonax of Crete, others of Brontinus of Croton, expedition to the Liparaean islands, where he
while, according to others, she was the wife of captured ten ships belonging to the Rhegians.
Brontinus, and the disciple of Pythagoras. Her Again in B. c. 388 he was chosen by his brother
traditional fame for wisdom and virtue was of the to conduct the magnificent procession which Dio-
highest order, and some interesting sayings are nysius sent to the Olympic festival. (Diod. xiv
ascribed to her by Diogenes Laërtius, and by 102, 103, 109. )
[E. H. B. )
Te
Ge
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THEMISON.
THEBE (onen). 1. A danghter of Promo | Ilippol. 737. ) She is often represented on coins
theus, from whom the Boeotian Thebes was_be- resembling the figure of Athena with a cornucopia
lieved to have derived its name. (Steph. Byz. and a pair of scules. (Gellius, xiv. 4 ; Hirt, My-
$. o. )
thol. Bilderb. p. 112 ; Müller, Anc. Art and ils
2. A daughter of Asopus and Metope, the Rem. $ 406. )
daughter of Ladon, became by Zeus the mother of 2. A daughter of Ilus and the wife of Capys, by
Zethus. She, too, is said to have given her name whom she became the mother of Anchiscs. (Apol-
to the city of Thebes. (Apollod. iii. 5. 96; Paus. lod. iii. 12. $ 2. )
(L. S. )
ii. 5. & 2, v. 22. & 5; Pind. Isthm. viii. 37 ; Diod. THEMIS or THEOMIS, the name of a poet
iv. 72. )
(L. S. ) to whom some late Greek writers ascribe the in-
THÉIA (Oela). 1. A daughter of Uranus and vention of tragedy, is probably nothing more than
Ge, one of the female Titans, becaine by Hyperion a corruption of Thespis. (Bude, Gesch. d. Hellen.
the mother of Helios, Eos, and Selene, that is, she Dicktkunst, vol. iii. pt. 1. p. 34. ) (P. S. )
was regarded as the deity from which all light THEMISON (Oeuloww). 1. A merchant of the
procceded. (Hes. Theog. 135, 371; Pind. Isthm. v. island of Thera, who, according to the Cyrenacan
1; Apollod. i. 1. § 3, 2. & 2; Catull. 66. 44. ) accounts of the foundation of their city, was the
2. A daughter of Oceanus and mother of the instrument made use of by Ftcarchus, king of Axus,
Cercopes. (Eustath. ad llom. p. 1864 ; Tzetz. ad for the destruction of his daugliter Phronimc.
Lycoph. 91. )
(L. S. ) [ETEARCH US. ] Themison, however, evaded the
THEIAS (Oclas), a king of the Assyrians, and fulfilment of the oath by which he had involuntarily
father of Smyrna, the mother of Adonis. (Apollod. bound himself to drown Phronime, and carried her
ji. 14. § 4 ; Anton. Lib. 34 ; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. in safety to Thera. (Herod. iv. 154. )
829 ; comp. Adonis. )
(L. S] 2. A tyrant of Eretria who in B. C. 366 assisted
THEIO'DAMAS (DElodáuas), the father of the exiles of Oropus in recovering possession of
1łylas, and king of the Dryopes. (Apollod. ii. 7. their native city. They succeeded in occupying it
$7; Apollon. Řhod. i. 1213, and his Schol, on i. by surprise, but the Athenians having marched
1207 ; Propert. i. 20. 6: comp. HYLAS. ) [L. S. ] against them with their whole force, Themison was
THEIODAS. [THEUDAS. ]
unable to cope with their power, and called in the
THEISOA (Osloba), one of the nymphs who Thebans to his assistance, who received possession
brought up the infant Zeus, was worshipped at of the city as a deposit, but afterwards refused to
Theisoa in Arcadia. (Paus. viii. 38. SS 3, 7, 47. $ give it up. (Diod. xv. 76 ; Xen. Hell. vii. 4. § 1;
2. )
[L. S. )
Dem. de Cor. p. 259. )
THELXION (Oertlwv), in conjunction with 3. Of Samos, a naval officer in the service of
Telchin, murdered Apis, when he attempted to Antigonus, king of Asia. In B. C. 315 we find
subjugate Peloponnesus ; but they themselves were him joining that chief in Phoenicia, with a fleet of
slain in return by Argus Panoptes. (Apollod. ii. 1. forty ships from the Hellespont, and again in 306
§ 1, &c. ) Pausanias ( ii. 5. § 5) calls him a son he is mentioned as commanding a part of the feet
of Apis and the father of Aegyrus. (L. S. ] of Demetrius, in the great sea-fight off Salamis in
THEMIS (Ofuis). 1. A daughter of Uranus Cyprus. (Diod. xix. 62, xx. 50. )
(others say Helios, Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 129) and 4. A Cyprian, who enjoyed a high place in the
Ge, was married to Zeus, by whom she became favour of Antiochus II. king of Syria, which he
the mother of the Horae, Eunomia, Dice (Astraea), had earned by the basest means as the minister
Firene, and the Moerae. (Hes. Theog. 135, 901, and companion of his abandoned pleasures. The
&c. ; Apollod. i. 3. § 1. ) In the Homeric poems, king is said to have committed to him and his
Themis is the personification of the order of things brother Aristus, the whole administration of affairs,
established by law, custom, and equity, whence she and not only presented Themison to the people on
is described as reigning in the assemblies of men public occasions in the garb of Heracles, but caused
(Od. ii. 68, &c. ), and as convening, by the com- sacrifices to be offered to him under that title.
mand of Zeus, the assembly of the gods. (Il. xx. (Athen. vii. p. 289, X. p. 438, c; Aelian. V. H
4. ) She dwells in Olympus, and is on friendly ii. 41. )
terms with Hera. (xv. 87, &c. ) This character of 5. An officer in the service of Antiochus the
Themis was recognised in the fact that at Thebes Great, who commanded the cavalry which formed
she had a sanctuary in common with the Moerae the left wing of his army at the battle of Raphia,
and Zeus Agoraeus (Paus. ix. 25. § 4), and at B. c. 217. (Polyb. v. 79, 82. ) [E. H. B. )
Olympia in common with the Horae. (Paus. v. 14. THEMISON (Oeuiow), the name of probably
8, 17. 81; comp. Diod. v. 67. ) Besides this she three physicians. 1. The founder of the ancient
is also described as an ancient prophetic divinity, medical sect of the Methodici, and one of the
and is said to have been in possession of the Del- most eminent physicians of his time, was a native
phic oracle as the successor of Ge, and previous to of Laodiceia in Syria (Pseudo-Gal. Introd. c. 4.
Apollo. (Ov. Míct. i. 321, iv. 642 ; Apollon. Rhod. vol. xiv. p. 684). He was a pupil of Asclepiades
iv. 800 ; Serv, ad Acn. iv. 246 ; Apollod. i. 4. $ 1; of Bithynia (Pliny, H. N. xxix. 5), and must
Paus, x. 5. $3 ; Aeschyl. Eum. init. ) The wor- have lived, therefore, in the first century B. C.
ship of Themis was established at Thebes, Olym- Augustin, in his Gesch. der Med. in tabellarischer
pia, Athens (Paus. i. 22. $ 1), at Tanagra (ix. 22. Form, says he was born B. C. 123, and died B. C.
§ 1), and at Troezene, where an altar was dedi- 43, which may possibly be quite correct, though he
cated to the Themides. (ii. 31. $ 8. ) Nymphs be- has not stated his reasons for giving such exact
lieved to be daughters of Zeus and Themis lived in dates. Nothing more is known of the events of
a cave on the river Eridanus (Apollod. ii. 5. $ 11; his life, except that he seems to have travelled a
Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1396 ; Hesych. s. e. good deal ; as he mentions Crete and Milan, appa-
DEHLOTiádes), and the Hesperides also are called rently as an eye-witness (ap. Cael. Aurel. De Norb.
daughters of Zeus and Themis. (Schol. ad Eurip. | Acut. iii. 18, p. 252). Neither is it certain whether
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THEMISTIUS.
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rela
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H.
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he ever visited Rome, though it is perhaps more entitled Naranuis, which is cited by Athenacus
probable that he did so. He differed from his tutor (vi. p. 235, a).
on several points in his old age, and became the TIIEMISTA (MIOTT), of Lampsacus, the
founder of a new sect called the “ Methodici,” wife of a certain Leonteus or Leon, was a contem.
which long exercised an extensive influence on porary and correspondent of Epicurus, and was
medical science. (Cels. De Med. i. praef. p. 5; celebrated herself as a philosopher. (Diog. Laërt.
Galen, De Mch. Mod. i. 4, 7. vol. x. pp. 35, 52 ; x. 5, with the note of Menagius ; Cic. in Pison.
Cramer's Anccd. Gracca Paris, vol. i. p. 395, where 26, de Fin. ii. 21 ; Lactant. iii. 25. )
he is called by an obvious mistake Μεθήσων). He THEMISTA'GORAS (OEMLoTayópas), the ane
wrote several medical works, but in what lan-thor of a work entitled the Golden Book (xovoén
guage is not mentioned ; of these only the titles Biblos), which appears to have been partly of an
and a few fragments remain, preserved princi- historical nature. (Athen. xv. p. 681, a; Etym.
pally by Caelius Aurelianus : e. g. --1. “ Libri 8. ο. 'Αστυπαλαία. )
Periodici. ” 2. “ Epistolae," in at least nine THEMI'STIUS (Oeulotios). J. The distin-
books. 3. “ Celeres Passiones," and 4. “ Tardae guished philosopher and rhetorician, surnamed
Passiones," each in at least two books. 5. “ Liber Euphrades on account of his eloquence, was a
Salutaris. ” 6. “ De Plantagine. ” (Plin. H. N. Paphlagonian, the son of Eugenius, who was also
xxv. 39 ; Macer Flor. Dc Vir. Herv. c. 6. v. 265. ) a distinguished philosopher, and who is more than
To these works Fabricius adds one, “ De Elephan- once mentioned in the orations of Themistius. He
tiasi” (Bill. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 432, ed. vet. ), but flourished, first at Constantinople and afterwards
this is probably a mistake (see Cael. Aurel. De at Rome, in the reigns of Constantius, Julian,
Morb. Chron. iv. 1. p. 493). An account of the Jovian, Valens, Gratian, and Theodosius ; and he
doctrines of the Methodici is given in the Vic-enjoyed the favour of all those emperors, notwith-
tionary of Antiquities, and his medical opinions on standing their diversities of character and opinion,
different subjects (so far as they can be ascer- and notwithstanding the fact that he himself was
tained) may be found in Haller's Biblioth. Medic.
