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of the Thuringians. So widely extended was Theo- about B. C. 235; for, on the one hand, Ellpholion
doric's name that the most distant nations courted is mentioned in one of the epigrams of Theohis alliance and his friendship, and embassies from doridas (Ep. ix.), and, on the other hand, Clemens
the rude people on the shores of the Baltic came to Alexandrinus (Strom. v. p. 673) quotes a verse
Ravenna to present to him their gifts. lie became of Euphorion E,'ra7s 7rpbs OEwpipas, a'xi-sypaqcais,
ruler of the Visigoths on the death of his son-in- where Schneider suggests the emendation Oeoawlaw Alaric II. The only legitimate son of Alaric pi3a,. He had a place in the Garland of Mewas a child named Amalaric, -whom he had by the leager. In addition to the, eighteen epigrams
daughter of Theodoric; and to protect the rights ascribed to him in the Greek Anthology, about the
of his grandson against the Franks, he sent an genuineness of some of which there are doubts
army into Gaul, by which he established his power (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 41; Jacobs, Anth. Graec.
in that country. vol. ii. p. 42, vol. xiii. p. 959), he wrote a lyric
Theodoriq usually resided at Ravenna, but he re- poem Eis Epw-ra, upon which a commentary was
moved his court to Verona, whenever his kingdom written by Dionysius, surnamed 5 ATe'rds (Ath.
was threatened by the neighbouring barbarians. xi. p. 475, f.), a dithyramb entitled Ker'avpoL
On one occasion (A. D. 500), he visited Rome, (Ath. xv. p. 699; Eustath. ad Odyss. p. 1571,
where he convened the senate, and assured them 16), licentious verses of the kind called )AXtaKE.s
of his intention to govern with justice. Although (Suid. s. v. vwaT-d&i s, as corrected by Meineke,
ignorant of literature himself, Theodoric encouraged Anal. Alex. p. 246), and some other poems, of
learned men; and among his ministers were Cas- which we have a few fragments, but not the titles.
siodorus and Boiithius, the two last writers who The name is more than once confounded with
can claim a place in the literature of ancient Rome. ~Eo'awpos and EEOs&PIrTOS. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
Prosperous as had been the reign of Theodoric, his vol. iv. p. 496; Bode, Gesch. d. Hellen. Dichtlast days were darkened by disputes with the Ca- kunst, vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 333; Ulrici, vol. ii. p.
tholics, and by the condemnation and execution of 613; Schmidt, Diatribe in Ditlhyramb. pp. 147Boethins and Symmachus, whom he accused of a 150.) [P. S.]
conspiracy to overthrow the Gothic dominion in THEODORITUS. [THEODORgTUS.]
Italy. [BoETHIUS; SYMMACHUS.] Theodoric died THEODO'RTJS I. LA'SCARIS, Greek emin 526. His death is said to have been hastened peror of Nicaea, A. D. 1206-1222, was descended
by remorse. It is related that one evening, when from a noble family at Constantinople. While in
a large fish was served on the table, he fancied that a private station he married Anna Angela Comhe beheld the head of Symxmachus, and was so nena, the second daughter of the emperor Alexis III.
terrified that he took to his bed, and died three Angelus. IIe was a man of energy and ability.
days afterwards. Theodoric was buried at Ra- and exhorted his father-in-law to resist the Latins
venna, and a monument was erected to his memory when they laid siege to Constantinople in 1203;
by his daughter Amalasuntha. His ashes were de- but Alexis in despair abandoned the city and fled
posited in a porphyry vase, which is still to be to Italy, to Conrad, Marquis of Monteferrato, who
seen at Ravenna. had married his sister. In the troubles which folTheodoric left no male issue. Ile bequeathed lowed at Constantinople, the history of which has
his dominions to his two grandsons, Athalaric, the been related elsewhere [ALEXIS IV. and V.],
son of his daughter Amalasuntha by a prince of Theodore continued to support the party that was
the royal race of the Amali, and Amalaric, the son opposed to the Latins; but after Constantinople
of Alaric II. and Theodichusa. The Rhone was had been taken by storm on the 12th of April
declared to be the boundary of their dominions: 1204, and Baldwin, count of Flanders, had been
Athalaric was to possess Italy and the conquests of placed on the imperial throne, Theodore fled with
the Ostrogoths, while Amalaric was to succeed to his wife to the Asiatic coast. Here he succeeded
the sovereignty of the Visigoths in Gaul and Spain. in raising some troops, by means of which he made
The great monarch of the Ostrogoths was long ce- himself master of the town of Nicaea, and the
lebrated in the old Teutonic songs. He appears greater part of Bithynia. He was, however, soon
in the " Niebelungen-Lied" under the title of deprived of his conquests by Louis Count of Blois,
Dietrich of Bern, that is, Verona. (Jornandes, de who had received Bithynia as his share of the
Reb. Get.; Procopius, de Bell. Goth.; Ennodius, Byzantine dominions; but he recovered them
Panegy-:icus Theodoric.; Cassiodorus, G(hrlon. and Va- againl when Louis was recalled to Constantinople to
riar.; Cochlaeus, Vit. Theodoric., ed. Peringskjild, the assistance of Baldwin, who was hard pressed
Stockholm, 1699, 4to; Tillemont, Histoire des by the B3ulgarians and the revolted Greeks. TheoEmpereurs, vol. vi.; Gibbon, Decline and Fall, dore had previously governed with the title of
c. xxxix.; Manso, Geschichte des Ost-Gothischlen Despot, in the name of his father-in-law, the deReic/es in Italicn, Breslau, 1824.) posed emperor Alexis III.; but as the latter was
THEODO'RIDAS (0eo3rpi8as), of Sicyon, still retained in captivity by the Marquis of Montewas one of the ambassadors sent by the Achacans ferrato, he now assumed the title of emperor of
in B. C. 187, to renew the alliance with Ptolemy the Romans, as lawful heir to the crown, in virtue
Epipllanes, king of Egypt. (Polyb. xxiii. 1.) He of his marriage with Anna, and was publicly
mnust have been a mall of conlsiderable power and crowned at Nicaea as emperor by Michael Autoinfluence in his native country, as at a later period rianus, the Greek patriarch (1206). His title,
(B. C. 168), we find the two Ptolemies (the sons however, was disputed by several other Greek
of Epiphanes), who. were then joint rulers of princes, who had established for themselves indeEgypt, applying to him to raise for them 1000 pendent principalities in Asia Minor. The most
mercenaries. (Id. xxix. 8.) [E. H. B.] formidable of these rivals was Alexis Comnenus,
THEODO'RIDAS (~eo30pi3as), of Syracuse, a who reigned as emperor at Trebizond, with whom
lyric and epigrammatic poet, who is supposed to Theodore carried on a successful war for some
have lived at the same time as Euphorion, that is, years. He also had to contend with Henry, tho
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