William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
p.
246, and Archäol.
d.
Kunst, the Romans, or, perhaps, rather an attribute of
§ 171, ed. Welcker. )
[P. S. ] Ops, by which she is described as the goddess
TURRI'NUS, CLO'DIUS, the name of two protecting the fruits which have been brought in
rhetoricians, father and son, spoken of with praise at the harvest time from the fields. Tutelina, Secia
by the elder Seneca, who gives a short account of and Messia had three pillars with altars before
them. The elder by his eloquence obtained wealth them in the Circus. (August. De Civ. Dei, iv. 8 ;
and honour, and held an important public office in Macrob. Sat. i. 16; Plin. H. N. xviii. 2; Varro, De
Spain. The son was an intimate friend of Seneca. Ling. Lat. v. 74. )
[L. S. ]
(Senec. Controv. v. Praef. p. 333, ed. Bip. , Suas. 2, TUTICA'NUS, a friend of Ovid, who addressed
Contr. 30–35. )
to him one of his extant epistles from Pontus (iv.
TURRI'NUS, MAMI'LIUS. 1. C. Mani | 12). Tuticanus had made a free translation into
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TYCHE.
TYCHONIUS.
66
:
Latin verse of the Odyssey, or at least of a portion TY'CHICUS, Q. HATE’RIUS, an architect,
of it, to which Ovid refers in the lines: -
who is mentioned in two extant inscriptions, from
Digriam Maeoniis Phaeacida condere chartis
which it appears that he held the office of redemp-
Cum te Piörides perdocuere tuae. "
tor operum under the emperor Claudius, and that
he constructed and adorned with marbles, at his
Ovid likewise alludes to this poem in another pas- own expense, a small temple of Hercules. (For
Bilge' (" Et qui Maeoniam Phaeacida vertit," ex the inscriptions themselves, see R. Rochette, Let-
Pont. iv. 16. 27), but without naming the author. tre à M. Schorn, pp. 420, 421, 2d ed. ) (P. S. )
(Wernsdorf, Poët. Lat. Min. vol. iv. pp. 584, 585. ) TY'CHIUS (Tuxios). 1. Of Hyle, a mythical
TU'TIA, mentioned in one of Cicero's letters artificer, mentioned by Homer (who calls him
(ad Att. xvi. 2), does not occur elsewhere, and is OKUTOT Ouwe Ox' &plotos), as the maker of Ajax's
perhaps a false reading for Julia, and the same as shield of seven ox-hides, covered with a plate of
the Julia spoken of ad Alt. xv. 29.
brass. (N. 219-223 ; Nonn. Dionys. xiii. 671. )
TUTI’LIUS, a rhetorician, whose daughter 2. A maker of fictile vases, whose name is in-
Quintilian married. (Plin. Ep. vi. 32 ; Quintil. iii. scribed on the margin of one of the large vases
1. $ 21, where Tutilius should be read instead of found at Cometo, in the following form : TV +IOS
Rutilius. ) (QUINTILIANUS, p. 635, a. )
ETOESEN. (Gerhard, Rapport Volcent. pp. 178,
L. TÚ'TIUS CEREA'LIS, consul under Tra | 701. ) His name is also found on some cases re-
jan A. D. 106 with L. Ceionius Commodus Verus cently discovered at Vulci, of which there is one
(Fasti). Pliny speaks of Tutius Cerea! is a con- in the Museum at Berlin. (Gerhard, Neuerworbene
sularis in one of his letters (Ep. ii. 11); but as antik. Denkmäler, No. 1664 ; R . Rochette, Lettre
the letter was written in A. D. 99, it must refer to à M. Schorn, p. 62, 2d ed. )
[P. S. ]
some other person of the same name, unless we TYCHON (Túxwv). 1. A god of chance or
suppose that the consul of the year 106 had held accident, was, according to Strabo (ix. p. 408),
the same dignity previously.
worshipped at Athens. (Comp. Anthol. Palat. ix.
TUTOR, JU’LIUS, a Treviran, who had been 334. )
placed by Vitellius in a command on the left bank 2. An obscene daemon, is mentioned as a com-
of the Rhine (A. D. 69), took part in the rebellion panion of Aphrodite and Priapus, and seems to sig-
of Classicus. After the murder of Vocula, he nify“ the producer," or " the fructifier. ” (Etym.
gained over the Roman soldiers at Colonia Agrip- Magn. and Hesych. s. v. ; comp. Jacobs, ad Anthol.
pinensis and on the banks of the Upper Rhine to tom. viii. p. 12 ; Lobeck, Aglaoph. p. 1235. ) (L. S. ]
the oath to the empire of Gaul. He neglected to TYCHO'NIUS, also written TICHONIUS, was
guard the Upper Rhine and the passes of the Alps an African, well versed in sacred and not ignorant
against Cerealis ; and, on the appearance of the of profane literature, who flourished under Theo-
Roman army he was deserted by a large body of dosius and his sons, being contemporary with
his troops. He retired to Bingium, and was there Rufinus and Augustine. Attached to the Donatists
defeated. After assisting Valentinus in his attempt he nevertheless assailed them in his writings, and
to renew the war (VALENTINUS], he joined Civilis although triumphant in confuting their doctrines,
and Classicus, with whom he fled across the Rhine. refused to quit their communion. This perversity
(Civilis. ] (Tac. Hist. iv, 55, 59, 70, v. 19% of temper calls forth the indignation of the bishop
22).
[P. S. ] of Hippo, who while he inveighs against the author,
TYCHE (Túxn). 1. The personification of at the same time praises his genius and eloquence,
chance or luck, the Fortuna of the Romans, is and earnestly recommends his works of these
called by Pindar (Ol. xii. init. ) a daughter of one only has reached us, entitled Septein Regulae
Zeus the Liberator. She was represented with or De Septem Regulis, being a code of Seven Rules
different attributes. With a rudder, she was con- for explaining Holy Scripture. It is analysed by
ceived as the divinity guiding and conducting the Augustine at the conclusion of his third book
affairs of the world, and in this respect she is called De Doctrina Christiana, but will be found to
one of the Moerae (Paus. vii. 26. § 3 ; Pind. contain little that is important, interesting, or even
Fragm. 75, ed. Heyne); with a ball she represents intelligible.
the varying unsteadiness of fortune ; with Plutos Tychonius composed also a treatise in three
or the horn of Amalthea, she was the symbol of books De Bello intestino, on the decrees of the ancient
the plentiful gifts of fortune. (Artemid. ii. 37 ; Synods which might be quoted in defence of his
comp. Müller, Anc. Art and its Rem. § 398. ) party ; Commentarium in Apocalypsin, in which he
Tyche was worshipped at Pharae in Messenia expounded the vision in a sense purely spiritual ;
(Paus. iv. 30. $ 2); at Smyrna, where her statue, and Expositio diversarum causarum in illustration
the work of Bupalus, held with one hand a globe of some arguments employed in defence of his sect;
on her head, and in the other carried the horn of but the whole of these are now lost.
Amalthea (iv. 30. $ 4); in the arx of Sicyon (ii. The Septem Regulae were first printed in the
7. & 5); at Aegeira in Achaia, where she was re- Monumenta Patrum Orthodoxographa of J. J.
presented with the horn of Amalthea and a winged Grynaells, fol. Basil. 1569, vol. v. p. 1352. An
Eros by her side (vii. 26. & 3; comp. Plut. De Fort.
edition corrected from MSS. was published by
Rom. 4 ; Amob. adv. Gent. vi. 25); in Elis (Paus. Andreas Schottus, in the Auctuarium to the Magna
vi. 25. § 4); at Thebes (ix. 16. § 1); at Leba- Bibliotheca Patrum, fol. Colon. 1622, p. 152,"re-
deia, together with ayadds Saluwv (ix. 39. § 4) ; at printed in the Bibliotheca Patrum Mar. fol. Lugd.
Olympia (v. 15. $ 4), and Athens. (Aelian, V. H. 1677, vol. vi. , and the piece will be found under
ix. 39; comp. FORTUNA. )
its best form in the Bibliotheca Putrum of Galland,
2. A nymph, one of the playmates of Persephone. vol. viii
. (fol. Venet. 1772) p. 107. (Augustin. de
(Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 42). )
Doctrina Christian. iii. 30. § 42 ; Gennad. de Viris
3. One of the daughters of Oceanus. (Hes. Illustr. 18; Galland, Proleg. ad Vol. VIII. c. ii. p. V. ;
Theog. 360. )
[L. S. ] Schoenemann, Bibliotheca Patrum Latt, vol. i. cap.
a
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TYCHONIUS
1195
TYMNES.
TYPIION,
son
TS Q. HATE RILS, an architecten
moed in two extant inkeptics, from
as that he bed the office of resears
der the enti peror Claudias, and
and adorned with sarbes, at is
a stall temple of Hercules (Fe
4 themselves, see R Racbeiten Leto
7, pp. 420, 421, 2d ed. ) P. S)
(Tryior), l. Of Hre, a
soned by Homer (she cale la
a' puotos), as the maker of Auris
1 or bides, corered with a paz
19-223 ; Nonn. Dronys. xi. 67)
of fictile rases, whose name is :)
- margin of one of the large rase
ta, in the following form: 11-13
Gerhard, Rapport liceal pa 17
me is also found on some cases ?
ed a: V'nici, of which there is
at Berlin. (Gerbard, Necnia
det. Na 1664; R. Rochette, La
. 62, 2d ed. ) [PS]
(Tiywv) 1. A pod of cheer
according to Strabo (il
. tW,
Athens (Comp duial, Part I
de daemon, is mentioned as a so
edite and Priapus, and tens to
acer," or "the fructier. " (Deze
ych. &t. ; comp. Jacobs, ad facia
Lobeck, Aglarpik p. 1941):13]
TS, also written TechN73 FB
Tersed in sacred and nothing
ature, who flourished zder The
sons, being contemporary TN
rustine. Attached to the Domenica
assailed them in bi onions and
ban: in confoting their cars
beir communion. This papers
vb the indigration of the busteg
ile he inveighs against the design
praises his genius and eloquena
commends his works Of *
:hed us, entitled Sun Penzion
iv. § 26 ; Bähr, Geschichle der Röm. Literat. Suppl. 1 499. ) Tymnes occurs, as a Carian name, in Hero-
B. & 100. )
(W. R. ] dotus (v. 37, vii. 98).
[P. S. ]
TYCUS. (QUARTINUS. )
TYMPANUS, L. POSTU'MIUS, quaestor
TYDEUS (Tudeus), a son of Oeneus and Peri- B. C. 194, slain in battle by the Boii. (Liv.
boea (Gorge or Althaea), was the husband of xxxiv. 47. )
Derpyle, by whom he became the father of Dio- TYNDAREUS (Tuvdápews), the son of Peri-
medes ; he was king of Calydon, and one of the eres and Gorgophone, and a brother of Apharcus,
princes who joined Polyneices in the expedition Leucippus, Icarius, and Arete (Apollod. i. 9. $ 5)
against Thebes. (Apollod. i. 8. & 5; Hom. II. ii. or according to others (A pollod. iii. 10. 84),
406, xiv, 115, &c. )
of Oebalus, by the nymph Bateia or by Gorgophone.
Tydeus was obliged to flee from his country in (Paus. iii. 1. $ 4. ) Tyndareus, with Icarion, being
consequence of some murder which he had com- expelled by his step-brother Hippocoon and his
mitted, but which is differently described by the sons, he fled to Thestius in Aetolia, and assisted
different authors, some saying that he killed his him in his wars against his neighbours. Others
father's brother, Melas, Lycopeus, or Alcathous ; (Paus. l. c. ) state that larion assisted Hippocoon,
others that he slew Thons or Aphareus, his mo- and, according to a Laconian tradition, Tyndareus
ther's brother ; others that he slew his brother went to Pellana in Laconia and according to a
Olenias, and others again that he killed the Messenian tradition, he went to Aphareus in Mes
sons of Melas, who had revolued against Oeneus senia. (Paus. iii. 1. & 4, 21. & 2. ) In Aetolia he
(Schol. ad Stat. Theb. i. 280, 402). He tied to married Leda, the daughter of Thestius (Apollod.
Adrastus at Argos, who purified him from the iii. 10. § 5; Eurip. Iph. Aul. 49), and afterwards
murder, and gave him his daughter Dežpyle in he was restored to his kingrlom of Sparta by He-
marriage. With Adrastus be then went against racles. (Apollod. ii. 7. § 3, ii. 10. § 5; Paus. ii.
Thebes, where he was wounded by Melanippus, 18. § 6; Diod. iv. 33. ) By Leda, Tyndareus
who, however, was slain by him. (A pollod. I. c. ; became the father of Timandra, Clytnemnestra and
Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 288, 971. ) When Tydeus Philonoë. (Apollod. iii. 10. § 6 ; Hom. Od. xxiv.
lay on the ground wounded, Athena appeared to 199. ) One night Leda was embraced both by
him with a remedy which she had received from Zeus and Tyndareus, and the result of this was
Zeus, and which was to make him immortal. This, the birth of Polydeuces and Helena, the children
however, was prevented by a stratagem of Amphi- of Zeus, and of Castor and Clytnemnestra, the
araus, who hated Tydeus, for he cut off the head children of Tyndareus. (Hygin. Fub. 77 ; comp.
of Melanippus and brought it to Tydeus, who cut DiosCURI ; HELENA ; CLYTAEMNESTRA. ) When
it in two and ate the brain, or devoured some of Tyndareus saw that his beautiful daughter Helena
the flesh. (Schol. ad Pind. Nem. x. 12 ; comp. was beleaguered by suitors, he began to be afraid,
Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1273. ) Athena seeing this, lest if one should be successful, the others should
shuddered, and did not apply the remedy which create disturbances, and, on the advice of Odysseus,
she had brought. (Apollod. iij. 6.
§ 171, ed. Welcker. )
[P. S. ] Ops, by which she is described as the goddess
TURRI'NUS, CLO'DIUS, the name of two protecting the fruits which have been brought in
rhetoricians, father and son, spoken of with praise at the harvest time from the fields. Tutelina, Secia
by the elder Seneca, who gives a short account of and Messia had three pillars with altars before
them. The elder by his eloquence obtained wealth them in the Circus. (August. De Civ. Dei, iv. 8 ;
and honour, and held an important public office in Macrob. Sat. i. 16; Plin. H. N. xviii. 2; Varro, De
Spain. The son was an intimate friend of Seneca. Ling. Lat. v. 74. )
[L. S. ]
(Senec. Controv. v. Praef. p. 333, ed. Bip. , Suas. 2, TUTICA'NUS, a friend of Ovid, who addressed
Contr. 30–35. )
to him one of his extant epistles from Pontus (iv.
TURRI'NUS, MAMI'LIUS. 1. C. Mani | 12). Tuticanus had made a free translation into
66
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1194
TYCHE.
TYCHONIUS.
66
:
Latin verse of the Odyssey, or at least of a portion TY'CHICUS, Q. HATE’RIUS, an architect,
of it, to which Ovid refers in the lines: -
who is mentioned in two extant inscriptions, from
Digriam Maeoniis Phaeacida condere chartis
which it appears that he held the office of redemp-
Cum te Piörides perdocuere tuae. "
tor operum under the emperor Claudius, and that
he constructed and adorned with marbles, at his
Ovid likewise alludes to this poem in another pas- own expense, a small temple of Hercules. (For
Bilge' (" Et qui Maeoniam Phaeacida vertit," ex the inscriptions themselves, see R. Rochette, Let-
Pont. iv. 16. 27), but without naming the author. tre à M. Schorn, pp. 420, 421, 2d ed. ) (P. S. )
(Wernsdorf, Poët. Lat. Min. vol. iv. pp. 584, 585. ) TY'CHIUS (Tuxios). 1. Of Hyle, a mythical
TU'TIA, mentioned in one of Cicero's letters artificer, mentioned by Homer (who calls him
(ad Att. xvi. 2), does not occur elsewhere, and is OKUTOT Ouwe Ox' &plotos), as the maker of Ajax's
perhaps a false reading for Julia, and the same as shield of seven ox-hides, covered with a plate of
the Julia spoken of ad Alt. xv. 29.
brass. (N. 219-223 ; Nonn. Dionys. xiii. 671. )
TUTI’LIUS, a rhetorician, whose daughter 2. A maker of fictile vases, whose name is in-
Quintilian married. (Plin. Ep. vi. 32 ; Quintil. iii. scribed on the margin of one of the large vases
1. $ 21, where Tutilius should be read instead of found at Cometo, in the following form : TV +IOS
Rutilius. ) (QUINTILIANUS, p. 635, a. )
ETOESEN. (Gerhard, Rapport Volcent. pp. 178,
L. TÚ'TIUS CEREA'LIS, consul under Tra | 701. ) His name is also found on some cases re-
jan A. D. 106 with L. Ceionius Commodus Verus cently discovered at Vulci, of which there is one
(Fasti). Pliny speaks of Tutius Cerea! is a con- in the Museum at Berlin. (Gerhard, Neuerworbene
sularis in one of his letters (Ep. ii. 11); but as antik. Denkmäler, No. 1664 ; R . Rochette, Lettre
the letter was written in A. D. 99, it must refer to à M. Schorn, p. 62, 2d ed. )
[P. S. ]
some other person of the same name, unless we TYCHON (Túxwv). 1. A god of chance or
suppose that the consul of the year 106 had held accident, was, according to Strabo (ix. p. 408),
the same dignity previously.
worshipped at Athens. (Comp. Anthol. Palat. ix.
TUTOR, JU’LIUS, a Treviran, who had been 334. )
placed by Vitellius in a command on the left bank 2. An obscene daemon, is mentioned as a com-
of the Rhine (A. D. 69), took part in the rebellion panion of Aphrodite and Priapus, and seems to sig-
of Classicus. After the murder of Vocula, he nify“ the producer," or " the fructifier. ” (Etym.
gained over the Roman soldiers at Colonia Agrip- Magn. and Hesych. s. v. ; comp. Jacobs, ad Anthol.
pinensis and on the banks of the Upper Rhine to tom. viii. p. 12 ; Lobeck, Aglaoph. p. 1235. ) (L. S. ]
the oath to the empire of Gaul. He neglected to TYCHO'NIUS, also written TICHONIUS, was
guard the Upper Rhine and the passes of the Alps an African, well versed in sacred and not ignorant
against Cerealis ; and, on the appearance of the of profane literature, who flourished under Theo-
Roman army he was deserted by a large body of dosius and his sons, being contemporary with
his troops. He retired to Bingium, and was there Rufinus and Augustine. Attached to the Donatists
defeated. After assisting Valentinus in his attempt he nevertheless assailed them in his writings, and
to renew the war (VALENTINUS], he joined Civilis although triumphant in confuting their doctrines,
and Classicus, with whom he fled across the Rhine. refused to quit their communion. This perversity
(Civilis. ] (Tac. Hist. iv, 55, 59, 70, v. 19% of temper calls forth the indignation of the bishop
22).
[P. S. ] of Hippo, who while he inveighs against the author,
TYCHE (Túxn). 1. The personification of at the same time praises his genius and eloquence,
chance or luck, the Fortuna of the Romans, is and earnestly recommends his works of these
called by Pindar (Ol. xii. init. ) a daughter of one only has reached us, entitled Septein Regulae
Zeus the Liberator. She was represented with or De Septem Regulis, being a code of Seven Rules
different attributes. With a rudder, she was con- for explaining Holy Scripture. It is analysed by
ceived as the divinity guiding and conducting the Augustine at the conclusion of his third book
affairs of the world, and in this respect she is called De Doctrina Christiana, but will be found to
one of the Moerae (Paus. vii. 26. § 3 ; Pind. contain little that is important, interesting, or even
Fragm. 75, ed. Heyne); with a ball she represents intelligible.
the varying unsteadiness of fortune ; with Plutos Tychonius composed also a treatise in three
or the horn of Amalthea, she was the symbol of books De Bello intestino, on the decrees of the ancient
the plentiful gifts of fortune. (Artemid. ii. 37 ; Synods which might be quoted in defence of his
comp. Müller, Anc. Art and its Rem. § 398. ) party ; Commentarium in Apocalypsin, in which he
Tyche was worshipped at Pharae in Messenia expounded the vision in a sense purely spiritual ;
(Paus. iv. 30. $ 2); at Smyrna, where her statue, and Expositio diversarum causarum in illustration
the work of Bupalus, held with one hand a globe of some arguments employed in defence of his sect;
on her head, and in the other carried the horn of but the whole of these are now lost.
Amalthea (iv. 30. $ 4); in the arx of Sicyon (ii. The Septem Regulae were first printed in the
7. & 5); at Aegeira in Achaia, where she was re- Monumenta Patrum Orthodoxographa of J. J.
presented with the horn of Amalthea and a winged Grynaells, fol. Basil. 1569, vol. v. p. 1352. An
Eros by her side (vii. 26. & 3; comp. Plut. De Fort.
edition corrected from MSS. was published by
Rom. 4 ; Amob. adv. Gent. vi. 25); in Elis (Paus. Andreas Schottus, in the Auctuarium to the Magna
vi. 25. § 4); at Thebes (ix. 16. § 1); at Leba- Bibliotheca Patrum, fol. Colon. 1622, p. 152,"re-
deia, together with ayadds Saluwv (ix. 39. § 4) ; at printed in the Bibliotheca Patrum Mar. fol. Lugd.
Olympia (v. 15. $ 4), and Athens. (Aelian, V. H. 1677, vol. vi. , and the piece will be found under
ix. 39; comp. FORTUNA. )
its best form in the Bibliotheca Putrum of Galland,
2. A nymph, one of the playmates of Persephone. vol. viii
. (fol. Venet. 1772) p. 107. (Augustin. de
(Hom. Hymn. in Cer. 42). )
Doctrina Christian. iii. 30. § 42 ; Gennad. de Viris
3. One of the daughters of Oceanus. (Hes. Illustr. 18; Galland, Proleg. ad Vol. VIII. c. ii. p. V. ;
Theog. 360. )
[L. S. ] Schoenemann, Bibliotheca Patrum Latt, vol. i. cap.
a
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TYCHONIUS
1195
TYMNES.
TYPIION,
son
TS Q. HATE RILS, an architecten
moed in two extant inkeptics, from
as that he bed the office of resears
der the enti peror Claudias, and
and adorned with sarbes, at is
a stall temple of Hercules (Fe
4 themselves, see R Racbeiten Leto
7, pp. 420, 421, 2d ed. ) P. S)
(Tryior), l. Of Hre, a
soned by Homer (she cale la
a' puotos), as the maker of Auris
1 or bides, corered with a paz
19-223 ; Nonn. Dronys. xi. 67)
of fictile rases, whose name is :)
- margin of one of the large rase
ta, in the following form: 11-13
Gerhard, Rapport liceal pa 17
me is also found on some cases ?
ed a: V'nici, of which there is
at Berlin. (Gerbard, Necnia
det. Na 1664; R. Rochette, La
. 62, 2d ed. ) [PS]
(Tiywv) 1. A pod of cheer
according to Strabo (il
. tW,
Athens (Comp duial, Part I
de daemon, is mentioned as a so
edite and Priapus, and tens to
acer," or "the fructier. " (Deze
ych. &t. ; comp. Jacobs, ad facia
Lobeck, Aglarpik p. 1941):13]
TS, also written TechN73 FB
Tersed in sacred and nothing
ature, who flourished zder The
sons, being contemporary TN
rustine. Attached to the Domenica
assailed them in bi onions and
ban: in confoting their cars
beir communion. This papers
vb the indigration of the busteg
ile he inveighs against the design
praises his genius and eloquena
commends his works Of *
:hed us, entitled Sun Penzion
iv. § 26 ; Bähr, Geschichle der Röm. Literat. Suppl. 1 499. ) Tymnes occurs, as a Carian name, in Hero-
B. & 100. )
(W. R. ] dotus (v. 37, vii. 98).
[P. S. ]
TYCUS. (QUARTINUS. )
TYMPANUS, L. POSTU'MIUS, quaestor
TYDEUS (Tudeus), a son of Oeneus and Peri- B. C. 194, slain in battle by the Boii. (Liv.
boea (Gorge or Althaea), was the husband of xxxiv. 47. )
Derpyle, by whom he became the father of Dio- TYNDAREUS (Tuvdápews), the son of Peri-
medes ; he was king of Calydon, and one of the eres and Gorgophone, and a brother of Apharcus,
princes who joined Polyneices in the expedition Leucippus, Icarius, and Arete (Apollod. i. 9. $ 5)
against Thebes. (Apollod. i. 8. & 5; Hom. II. ii. or according to others (A pollod. iii. 10. 84),
406, xiv, 115, &c. )
of Oebalus, by the nymph Bateia or by Gorgophone.
Tydeus was obliged to flee from his country in (Paus. iii. 1. $ 4. ) Tyndareus, with Icarion, being
consequence of some murder which he had com- expelled by his step-brother Hippocoon and his
mitted, but which is differently described by the sons, he fled to Thestius in Aetolia, and assisted
different authors, some saying that he killed his him in his wars against his neighbours. Others
father's brother, Melas, Lycopeus, or Alcathous ; (Paus. l. c. ) state that larion assisted Hippocoon,
others that he slew Thons or Aphareus, his mo- and, according to a Laconian tradition, Tyndareus
ther's brother ; others that he slew his brother went to Pellana in Laconia and according to a
Olenias, and others again that he killed the Messenian tradition, he went to Aphareus in Mes
sons of Melas, who had revolued against Oeneus senia. (Paus. iii. 1. & 4, 21. & 2. ) In Aetolia he
(Schol. ad Stat. Theb. i. 280, 402). He tied to married Leda, the daughter of Thestius (Apollod.
Adrastus at Argos, who purified him from the iii. 10. § 5; Eurip. Iph. Aul. 49), and afterwards
murder, and gave him his daughter Dežpyle in he was restored to his kingrlom of Sparta by He-
marriage. With Adrastus be then went against racles. (Apollod. ii. 7. § 3, ii. 10. § 5; Paus. ii.
Thebes, where he was wounded by Melanippus, 18. § 6; Diod. iv. 33. ) By Leda, Tyndareus
who, however, was slain by him. (A pollod. I. c. ; became the father of Timandra, Clytnemnestra and
Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 288, 971. ) When Tydeus Philonoë. (Apollod. iii. 10. § 6 ; Hom. Od. xxiv.
lay on the ground wounded, Athena appeared to 199. ) One night Leda was embraced both by
him with a remedy which she had received from Zeus and Tyndareus, and the result of this was
Zeus, and which was to make him immortal. This, the birth of Polydeuces and Helena, the children
however, was prevented by a stratagem of Amphi- of Zeus, and of Castor and Clytnemnestra, the
araus, who hated Tydeus, for he cut off the head children of Tyndareus. (Hygin. Fub. 77 ; comp.
of Melanippus and brought it to Tydeus, who cut DiosCURI ; HELENA ; CLYTAEMNESTRA. ) When
it in two and ate the brain, or devoured some of Tyndareus saw that his beautiful daughter Helena
the flesh. (Schol. ad Pind. Nem. x. 12 ; comp. was beleaguered by suitors, he began to be afraid,
Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1273. ) Athena seeing this, lest if one should be successful, the others should
shuddered, and did not apply the remedy which create disturbances, and, on the advice of Odysseus,
she had brought. (Apollod. iij. 6.
