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TT-IOMAS. THORAX. 1.105
His Attic Lexicon was first published by Zach. THOON (Oowv). 1. One of the Gigantes, was
Caliergrus, Rom. 1517, 8vo.; and soon after by killed by the Moerae. (Apollod. i. 6. ~ 2.)
Fr. Asulanus, who had not seen the former edition, 2. A Trojan who was killed by Odysseus. (Hom.
in the Aldine collection of Greek Lexicographers, Il. xi. 422.)
entitled Dictionarium Graeecuzn, Venet. 1524, fol.; 3. A son of Phaenops, who, with his brother
reprinted 1525. fol.; then by Michael Vascosanus, Xanthus, was slain by Diomedes. (Hom. II. v.
with the Attic Lexicons of Phrynichus and Mos- 152.) A Phaeacian of this name occurs in the
chopulus, Lutet. 1532, 8vo.; the next edition was Odyssey (viii. 113). [L. S.]
that of Nicolas Blancard, who made many rash THORA'NIUS, or TORA'NIUS. 1. A lechanges in the text; a very excellent edition, gate of Q. Metellus Pius in Spain, was defeated
enriched with a body of notes by Dan. Heinsius, and slain by Sertorius about B. c. 77. He is called
J. Chr. Wolf, and many other scholars, was pub- Thorius by Florus. (Plut. Sentor. 12; Flor. iii.
lished by Johan. Steph. Bernard, Lugd. Bat. 1757, 22. ~ 6.)
8vo.; and, lastly, the work has been recently re- 2. One of the Pompeian party, who was in
edited by Ritschl, with valuable Prolegomena, exile in B. c. 45, and to whom Cicero addressed
under the following title: —Thomae Magistri sive two letters of consolation, which are extant (ad
Theoduli Monachi Ecloga Vocrnm Atticarum. Ex Fans. vi. 20, 21, where the name is usually written
Recen2sione et cum Prolegonzenis Friderici Ritsc7eslii. Toranius or Torannius.)
Halis Sax. 1831, 1832, 8vo. An edition of the 3. C. THORAN1US or TORANIUS, was the tutor
Orations and Epistles, which were then known, or guardian of Octavianus, and the colleague of
was published in Greek and Latin, Upsal. 1693, his father in the aedileship, but was nevertheless
4to., by Laurentius Norrmann, who had edited the proscribed by the triumvirs in B. c. 43, at the
Laudatio Gregorii alone two years before, Upsal. request of his son, who was anxious to obtain pos1691, 4to.; and two other orations, namely that to session of his property. His son soon dissipated
Andronicus Palaeologus dce Regis Officiis, and the the inheritance which he had acquired by parrifellow to it, de Suzbditorum erya Regets Offiiis, cide, was convicted of theft, and died in exile.
have been published in the Nova Colleclio VTeterum (Appian, B. C. iv. 12, 18; Suet. Octav. 27; Val.
Scriptorsum of Angelo Maio (vol. iii. pp. 145, foll., Max. ix. 11. ~ 5; Oros. vi. 18.)
pp. 173, foll. 1827, 4to.), who gives the titles of 4. THORANIUS, tribune of the plebs ill B. c. 25,
several unedited letters and orations of Tholnas, placed his father by his side in the seat assilgned
which he promises to publish. Some Exceipta to the tribunes in the theatre, although his father
from Thomas Magister are printed in the Anecdota was at the time a freedman. (Dion Cass. liii. 27.)
of L. Bachmann, vol. ii. 1828, 8vo. 5. THORANIUS, or TORANIUS, a celebrated
(Cave, Hist. Litt. s. a. 1311, Appendix, p. 15, mango or slave-dealer in the time of Antony and
ed. Basil.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. pp. 181, Augustus. HI-e is called Toranius Flaccus by Mafoll.; Schrickh, Cliristl. IKirrelengesch. vol. xxx. p. crobius. (Plin. H. N. vii. 10. s. 12; Macrob. Sat.
298; Schbll, Gesrh. d. Gricrh. Litt. vol. iii. pp. 152, ii. 4; Suet. Octav. 69.)
207; Hoffmann, Lex. Bibliogr. Script. Graec.) THORAX (Oc~pax). 1. Of Larissa in Thes2. THOMAS, a monk of Crete, whose selection saly, and one of the powerful family of the Aleuafrom the Lexicon of Suidas exists in MS. in several dae. Thorax and his brothers, wishing to confirm
libraries, appears to be a different' person from or to increase their power, were among those who
Thomas Magister. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. vi. p. 417.) urged Xerxes to invade Greece, and promised him
3. A patrician and marshal of the Byzantine their assistance in the enterprise. In the Persian
circus (wrarpltcos icl Ao7yoOer71c ro0 6po'yov), king's retreat, after the battle of Salamis, Thorax
wrote an epitaph on a certain Anastasius, who had formed one of his escort, after which he still congained many victories in the horse-races; which is tinned to show his zeal in the cause of the inpreserved in the Anthology of Planudes. (Anth. vaders, and was present with Mardonius at the
Plinstd. p. 408, Steph., p. 543, WVechel.; Brunck, battle of Plataea, B. C. 479. When the Persians
Anal. vol. iii. p. 124; Jacobs, Ant&. Grace. vol. iv. had been finally driven from Greece, Leotychides,
p. 94, vol. xiii. p. 961.) king of Sparta, led an army into Thessaly to punish
4. The Planudean Anthology also contains an those who had sided with the barbarians, but the
epigram in praise of Demosthenes, Thucydides, Aleuadae purchased his forbearance with bribes.
and Aristeides, as the three greatest of Greek rhe- (Herod. vi. 72, vii. 6, ix. 1, 58.) [LEOTYCHIDES,
toricians, by a certain Thomas Scholasticus, the No. 2.]
same person, perhaps, as Thomas Magister, with 2. A Lacedaemonian, is mentioned by Diodorus
whom Planudes was contemporary. Nay, it is (xiii. 76) as acting under Callicratidas during his
possible that Thomas Patricius (No. 3) may also operations in Lesbos, in a. c. 405, and as having
have been identical with Thomas Magister, who been commissioned by him, after the capture of
may have held the office in the circus before his Methymna, to conduct the heavy-armed troops to
retirement to the monastery. (Anth. Plan. p. 376, Mytilene. In the following year we again find
Steph., p. 514,Wechel.; Brunck, l.c. p. 125; Jacobs, Thorax in command of the land-force which co1. c. p. 95; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 497.) operated with the fleet under Lysander in the
A few other insignificant persons of the name storming of Lampsacus (Xen. Hell. ii. ~. ~ 18;
are mentioned by Fabricius, Bibl. Grace. vol. xi. Plunt. Lys. 9); and he was left at Samos as harpp. 719, 720. [P. S.] most by Lysander, when the latter was on his way
THOMAS (OwlAas), a physician of the emperor to Athens after the battle of Aegospotami. (Diod.
Justinian, who was also a privy counsellor (&as- xiv. 3.) According to Plutarch, when the satrap
KrpiroLs, or a secrctis), and stood high in his Pharnabazus sent to Sparta to complain of ravages
favour. He was put to death for the part he took committed in his territory by Lysander, the Lacein the riots at Constantinople called NiKa, A. D. daemonian government put Thorax to death, as he
532. (Ch/ron. Pasc/l. pp. 338, 340.) [W. A. G.] was a friend and colleague of the accused admiral,
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