A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

1104, THOAS. THOMAS.
oligarchical party, being driven out, betook them- 5. A son of Ornytus or Ornytion. (Panus. ii. 4.
selves parly to Ptolemy Lagi, king of Egypt, and ~ 3; Schol. ad Eurip. Or. 1087.)
partly to Thimbron. Ptolemy thereupon sent a 6. A Trojan who was slain by Menelaus. (Hom.
large force against Cyrene under Ophellas, to whom 11. xvi. 31 1.) [L. S.]
the exiles, who had taken refuge with Thimbron, THOAS (04as), an Aetolian, who was praetor
endeavoured to escape, but were detected, and put of that nation in B. C. 193. and at a council held at
to death. The Cyrenaean people then made com- Naupactus, took a prominent part in urging his
mon cause with Thimbron against the new in- countrymen to war with Rome, and advised them
vader; but Ophellas defeated him, and he was to send embassies to Philip and Antiochus. These,
obliged to seek safety in flight. He fell, however, however, produced no effect for the moment, and
into the hands of some Libyans, and was by them the following year (B. c. 192) we find Thoas endelivered up to Epicydes, an Olynthian, whom gaging on his own account in an unsuccessful atOphellas, having taken Teucheira, had made go- tempt to reduce the important fortress of Chalcis.
vernor of the town. The citizens of Teucheira, But circumstances now caused Antiochus to lend
with the sanction of Ophellas, sent Thimbron to a more favourable ear to his overtures, and having
Apollonia, the scene of much of his violence and repaired in person to join the king in Asia, he
extortion, to be crucified, B. C. 322. (Diod. xvii. obtained great influence over his mind, and, by his
108, xviii. 19-21; Arr. ap. Phot. cod. 92; Strab. magniloquent promises, was mainly instrumental
xvii. p. 837; Just. xiii. 6, 8; Oros. iii. 23.) [E. E.] in persuading him to pass over in person with his
THISBE (Oa1oy). 1. A beautiful maiden at army into Greece. Here also he readily induced
Babylon, was beloved by Pyramus. The lovers the Aetolians, who were assembled in council at
living in adjoining houses, often secretly conversed Lamia, to conclude an alliance with Antiochus, and
with each other through an opening in the wall, as place themselves under his command. We do not,
their parents would not sanction their marriage. however, hear any thing of the services which he
Once they agreed upon a rendezvous at the tomb of rendered to the king during the war that followed;
Ninus. Thisbe arrived first, and while she was while by the advice which he had given at the com%waiting for Pyramus, she perceived a lioness who mencement, he had prevented Antiochus from
had just torn to pieces an ox, and took to flight. availing himself of the important assistance of HanWhile running she lost her garment, which the nibal. After the defeat of the Syrian monarch
lioness soiled with blood. In the mean time Py- the Romans made the surrender of Thoas one of
ramus arrived, and finding her garment covered the conditions of,the peace which they granted
with blood, he imagined that she had been mur- him: but though this demand was complied with,
dered, and made away with himself under a mul- they were induced to set him at liberty at the inberry tree, the fruit of which henceforth was as tercession of Nicander and Pantaleon. At a subred as blood. Thisbe, who afterwards found the sequent period, however (B. c. 169), having again
body of her lover, likewise killed herself. (Ov. taken an active part against these last partizans, he
~let. iv. 55-165; comp. Anthol. Lat. i. p. 106, fell a victim to the popular indignation, being as&c. ed. Burm.) sailed with stones by the assembly of the people.
2. A Boeotian nymph, from whom the town of (Liv. xxxv. 12, 37, 38, 42, 45, xxxvii. 45, xxxviii.
Thisbe derived its name. (Paus. ix. 32. ~ 2.) [L.S.] 38; Polyb. xxi. 14, xxii. 26, xxviii. 4; Diod.
THOANTEA, a surname of the Taurian Arte- xxix. Exc. Le/at. p. 621,Exc. Vat.p. 71.) [E.H.B.]
nlis, derived from Thoas, king of Tauris. (Val. THOMAS (~wlFcas). 1. Magister, a rhetoriFlacc. viii. 208; Ov. 16. 386.) [L. S.] cian and grammarian, who flourished about A. D.
THOAS (eo'ae). 1. A sonl of Andraemon and 1310. He appears to have been a native of ThesGorge, was king of Calydon and Pleuron, in salonica, and to have lived at the court of the emAetolia, and went with forty ships against Troy. peror Andronicus Palaeologus I., and to have held
(IIom. II. ii. 638, iv. 529, vii. 168, xiii. 216, xv. the offices of marshal (Mayister Officiorum) and
281; Paus. v. 3. ~ 5; Hygin. Fab. 97; Tzetz. ad keeper of the archives (Clhartoplylax); but he afterLJycophI. 780, 1011; comp. Strab. vi. p. 255; wards retired to a monastery, where he assumed the
Paus. x. 38. ~ 3.) name of Theodulus, and devoted himself to the study
2. A son of Dionysus and Ariadne. (Schol. ad of the ancient Greek authors. His chief work was
Apollon. Rhkod. iii. 997; Stat. Theb. iv. 769.) He a Lexicon f Attic Words (Kacra'ApaCiTro, Ovofiadwas king of Lemnos and married to Myrina, by TWy'AT'LrC~C'EKcXOyai), compiled from the works
whom he became the father of Hypsipyle and Si- of the elder grammarians, such as Phrynichus,
cinus. (Hom. /. xiv. 230; Diod. v. 79; Schol. Ammonius, Herodian, and Moeris; but with very
cad( Apollon. i. 601; Hygin. Fab. 15, 120; Tzetz. little judgment. The work has some value on acad Lycoph. 1374.) When the Lemnian women count of its containing much from the elder gramkilled all the men in the island, Hvpsipyle saved marians, which would otherwise have been lost;
her father Thoas, and concealed him. (Apollod. i. but, when Thomas deserts his guides, he often
9. ~ 17.) Afterwards, however, hewas discovered falls into the most serious errors. He wrote
by the other women, and killed (Apollod. iii. 6. Scholia upon Pindar, Euripides, and Aristophanes,
~ 4), or he escaped to Tauris (Hygin. Fab. 15), or the remains of which are merged in the collections
to the island of Oenoe near Euboea, which was of ancient scholia, and also lives of those authors,
henceforth called Sicinus. (Schol. adApollon. i. 624.) which are prefixed to some of the editions of their
3. A son of Icarius and Periboea, and a brother works. His other writings consist of letters and
of Penelope. (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 6.) orations, the latter being partly scholastic essays
4. A son of Borysthenes, and king of Tauris, in imitation of the ancient orators, partly eninto whose dominions Iphigenia was carried by comiums on the great men of former days, such as
Artemis, when she was to have been sacrificed. that upon Gregory of Nazianzus, partly laudatory
Hie was killed by Chryses. (Anton. Lib. 27; addresses to his contemporaries, and partly relatilng
Hygin. Fab. 121; Eurip. Iphiqi. Taur.) to passing events.