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STHENELUS
(
sthe‘-ne-lus
): (1) Greek, Diomedes’ charioteer, 2.331. (2) Trojan killed by Turnus, 12.407.
 
STHENIUS
(
sthe‘-ni-us
): Rutulian attacked by Pallas (3), 10.458.
 
STROPHADES
(
stroh‘-fa-deez
): islands in the Ionian Sea, their name is derived from the Greek word for “turn,”
stréphesthai,
as Williams observes (1972, note 3.210-11), because the two sons of Boreas, “in one version of the story . . . were here turned back from their pursuit of the Harpies by the goddess Iris,” after a promise that no more harm would come to Phineus, 3.254. See Note 3.258 and PHINEUS.
 
STRYMON
(
stree‘-mon
): Thracian river, favorite haunt of water-birds, especially cranes, 10.318.
 
STRYMONIUS
(
stree-mon‘-i-us
): Trojan whose hand is severed by Halaesus, 10.490.
 
STYX
(
stiks
): “abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,” in Milton’s phrase; the main river in the Underworld, by which the gods swear their binding oaths, 3.262 (see Note ad loc); STYGIAN (
sti‘-jan
), belonging to the river, 6.159.
 
SUCRO
(
soo‘-kroh
): Rutulian killed by Aeneas, 12.590.
 
SULMO
(
sool‘-moh
): (1) Rutulian under Volscian command; killed by Nisus, 9.474. (2) Another Rutulian, father of four sons, comrades of Turnus, captured by Aeneas to be slaughtered at Pallas’ (3) funeral, 10.613.
 
SUN
: the sun personified, 1.682. See PHAËTHON (1) and (2), 5.125, and TITAN.
 
SYBARIS
(
si‘-bar-is
): Trojan killed by Turnus, 12.432.
 
SYCHAEUS
(
si-kee‘-us
): Dido’s Phoenician husband, to whom the ghost of the queen returns in the Underworld, 1.417. See PYGMALION.
 
SYMAETHUS
(
see-mee‘-thus
): Sicilian river southwest of Catania, in the foothills of Mount Etna, 9.663.
 
SYRACUSE
(
si‘-ra-kyooz
): the major city of Sicily in classical antiquity, founded by colonists from Corinth on the southeastern coast of the island and the putative birthplace of Theocritus. See ORTYGIA (2), PLEMYRIUM, and 3.800.
 
SYRTES
(
seer‘-teez
): the Sandbanks, two great shoals near the southern coast of the Mediterranean off Libya and Carthage, and a menace to mariners, 1.132.
 
TABURNUS
(
ta-boor‘-nus
): Monte Taburno, a mountain range in the Samnite region of southern Italy, 12.830.
 
TAGUS
(
ta‘-gus
): Rutulian under Volcens’ command, killed by Nisus, 9.482.
 
TALOS
(
ta‘-los
): Rutulian killed by Aeneas, 12.600.
 
TANAIS
(
ta‘-na-is
): Rutulian killed by Aeneas, 12.600.
 
TARCHON
(
tar‘-kon
): Etruscan chieftain of forces allied with those of Aeneas, 8.595. See Introduction, p. 34.
 
TARENTUM
(
ta-ren‘-tum
): now Taranto, a Calabrian coastal city and harbor on the Gulf of Tarentum in southern Italy, 3.644.
 
TARPEIA
(
tar-pay‘-a
): woman warrior, comrade-in-arms of Camilla, 11.774.
 
TARPEIAN
(
tar-pay‘-an
): of a cliff on the Capitoline hill, with which it is often synonymous, named after Tarpeia, daughter of one of Romulus’ generals, who treacherously opened Rome to the Sabines, 8.765.
 
TARQUIN
(
tar‘-kwin
): the name of two kings of Rome, Tarquinius Priscus and Tarquinius Superbus, “the Proud,” 6.941. The latter, Rome’s last king, was expelled by Brutus, 8.759. See BRUTUS and Introduction, p. 34.
 
TARQUITUS
(
tayr‘-kwi-tus
): born to Faunus by the wood-nymph Dryope and a Latin champion, comrade of Turnus, killed by Aeneas, 10.650.
 
TARTARUS
(
tar‘-ta-rus
): the lowest, darkest depths of the house of Hades, the kingdom of the dead, where Jupiter incarcerates his defeated enemies, the Titans in particular, 5.813. TARTAREAN (
tar-tar-ee’-an
), belonging to the region, 6.337.
 
TATIUS
(
ta‘-ti-us
): king of the Sabines, who, after the abduction of the Sabine women and his incursion against the Romans in revenge, shared with Romulus the joint rule of both their peoples, 8.751.
 
TEGEAN
(
te-jee‘-an
): resident of Tegea, a town in central Arcadia and synonymous with the region, 5.333.
 
TELEBOEAN
(
te-le-bee‘-an
): of an Acarnanian people who settled on Capreae, 7.856.
 
TELON
(
te‘-lon
): king of the Teleboeans, ruler of Capreae, father by Sebethis of Oebalus, who enlarged his father’s holdings, 7.854.
TENEDOS
(
ten‘-e-dos
): island in the northeastern Aegean off the coast of Troy, where the Greek fleet regroups for the final assault on the city, 2.28.
 
TEREUS
(
tee‘-ryoos
): Trojan killed by Camilla, 11.796.
 
TETRICA
(
te‘-tri-ka
): an Apennine mountain ridge in the Sabines’ realm, source of a contingent allied with Turnus, 7.830.
 
TEUCER
(
too‘-sur
): (1) first king of the Trojans or Teucrians, father of Bateia, the wife of Dardanus, forebear of Aeneas, 1.279. (2) Achaean, bastard son of Telamon, half-brother of Great Ajax and a master archer, 1.740.
 
TEUTHRAS
(
too‘-thras
): Arcadian comrade of Pallas (3) and under Aeneas’ command, 10.477.
 
TEUTONIC
(
too-ton‘-ik
): describing a people of Germany. To Roman historians, the epitome of a savage northern tribe, 7.862.
 
THAEMON
(
thee‘-mon
): Lycian, brother of Clarus and Sarpedon, and an ally of Aeneas, 10.155.
 
THAMYRUS
(
tham‘-i-rus
): Trojan killed by Turnus, 12.407.
 
THAPSUS
(
thap‘-sus
): a peninsula and town on Sicily’s eastern coast, 3.796.
 
THEANO
(
the-ayn‘-oh
): Trojan woman who bore Mimas to Amycus (4), 10.832.
 
THEBES
(
theebz
): seven-gated city of the Thebans in Boeotia, attacked by Polynices and the Seven; the scene of Euripides’
Bacchae,
4.590. See PENTHEUS.
 
THEMILLAS
(
the-meel‘-as
): Trojan, whose spear grazes Privernus, a Rutulian killed by the Trojan Capys (1), 9.656.
 
THERMODON
(
theer‘-moh-don
): river in Pontus which empties into the southern coast of the Black Sea, and a favorite haunt of the Amazons, 11.778.
 
THERON
(
thee‘-rohn
): Latin killed by Aeneas, 10.369.
 
THERSILOCHUS
(
theer-si‘-lo-kus
): (1) Trojan, one of Antenor’s three sons whom Aeneas sees among the war heroes in the Underworld, 6.561. (2) Trojan killed by Turnus, 12.432.
 
THESEUS
(
thees‘-yoos
): son of Aegeus, king of Athens, who abducted Ariadne from Crete to Naxos and, with his comrade, Pirithous, descended to the Underworld and tried, unsuccessfully, to kidnap Persephone; in punishment, Theseus was condemned to sit on a seat for eternity, 6.36.
 
THESSANDRUS
(
thee-sayn‘-drus
): Greek raider hidden in the Trojan horse, 2.331.
 
THETIS
(
the‘-tis
): sea-goddess, daughter of Nereus, married to Peleus and by him the mother of Achilles, 5.919.
THOAS
(
thoh‘-as
): (1) Greek raider concealed in the Trojan horse, 2.333. (2) Trojan killed by Halaesus, 10.491.
 
THRACIAN
(
thray‘-shan
): 1.382, belonging to THRACE (
thrays
), a country north of the Aegean and the Hellespont, and west of the Black Sea, 3.41.
 
THRONIUS
(
thro‘-ni-us
): Trojan killed by Salius (2), 10.889.
 
THYBRIS
(
thee‘-bris
): legendary Etruscan king, eponymous hero of the river Tiber, where Thybris met his death, 8.388.
 
THYMBER
(
theem‘-ber
): Rutulian, twin brother of Larides, sons of Daunus, both killed by Pallas (3), 10.462.
 
THYMBRA
(
theem‘-bra
): town in the Troad, south of Troy, on the Xanthus (Scamander) River, and sacred to Apollo, 3.102.
 
THYMBRAEUS
(
theem-bree‘-us
): Trojan, killer of the Latin Osiris, 12.538.
 
THYMBRIS
(
theem‘-bris
): Trojan veteran, comrade of Aeneas, 10.153.
 
THYMOETES
(
thi-mee‘-teez
): (1) Trojan who urges the admittance of the Trojan horse into the city. 2.41. (2) Trojan, son of Hicetaon and defender of Aeneas’ garrison, killed by Turnus, 10.152.
 
TIBER
(
teye‘-ber
): the river Tiber, the main river of central Italy, that rises in the Apennines and runs south; the city of Rome was established along its left bank; a name for the god of the river as well, 1.15.
 
TIBUR
(
tee‘-bur
): venerable town of Latium, now called Tivoli, built along the Anio, northeast of Rome, 7.733.
 
TIBURTUS
(
tee-boor‘-tus
): Greek, brother of Catillus and Coras, one of the three legendary founders of Tibur, the town that bears Tiburtus’ name; all are allied with Turnus, 7.782.
 
TIGER
: ship commanded by Massicus, 10.202.
 
TIMAVUS
(
ti-may‘-vus
): northern Italian river that empties into the Adriatic near its headwaters, 1.290. See Note 1.287-97.
 
TIRYNS
(
tir‘-inz
): ancient city in the Argolid, in the kingdom of Diomedes, and known for its rugged Cyclopean walls, 7.770. See Note ad loc.
 
TISIPHONE
(
ti-si‘-foh-nee
): one of the three Furies, she metes out punishments in the Underworld; guardian of the gates that enclose the damned, 6.645.
 
TITAN
(
teye‘-tan
): one of the elder gods, children of Uranus confined by Jupiter in Tartarus for their rebellion against the Olympians, 6.673-74. For the Sun as “child of the Titan Hyperion” (Austin, 1955, note 4.118 f.) see 4.147, 6.838.
TITHONUS
(
ti-thoh‘-nus
): consort of the Dawn, son of Laomedon and brother of Priam, father of Memnon, 4.731.
 
TITYUS
(
ti‘-ti-us
): legendary figure doomed to eternal torture in the Underworld for having assaulted Latona, mother of Diana and Apollo, who joined forces to kill the giant in revenge, 6.687.
 
TMARIAN
(
tma‘-ri-an
): inhabitant of mountainous region in Epirus, 5.685.
 
TMARUS
(
tma‘-rus
): Rutulian routed or killed by Aeneas’ forces, 9.779.
 
TOLUMNIUS
(
to-loom‘-ni-us
): Rutulian prophet, comrade of Turnus, 11.513.
 
TORQUATUS
(
tohr-kwah‘-tus
): Titus Manlius, early Roman consul, named for the torque he wore, having seized it from a Gaul he killed in battle, 6.949. For his execution of his son for insubordination, see Introduction, p. 30.
 

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