TITYUS, a giant, son of Earth, who offered violence to Latona; for this he was punished in hades, where a vulture kept feeding upon his music of Orpheus, _H. Oet._ 1070.
TMOLUS, a mountain in Lydia, a favorite haunt of Bacchus, _Phoen._ 602.
TOXEUS, a youth slain by Hercules, _H. Oet._ 214.
TRIPTOLEMUS, son of the king of Eleusis, through whom Ceres gave the arts of agriculture to mankind, _Hip._ 838.
TRITONS, sea-deities; they sung the marriage chorus of Achilles, _Tro._ 202.
TRIVIA, an epithet of Diana, because she presided over places where three roads meet, _Agam._ 382; _Oct._ 978; applied by association to Luna, the heavenly manifestation of Diana, _Med._ *787.
TROÏLUS, a son of Priam, slain by Achilles, _Agam._ 748.
TROY, an ancient city of Troas, whose walls were built by Neptune and Apollo, _Tro._ 7; it was first destroyed under the reign of Laomedon, father of Priam, by Hercules and Telamon, because of the perfidy of Laomedon, _Agam._ 614, 862; _Tro._ 135, *719; its second fall was after ten years of siege by the Greeks, _Tro._ 74; her festal day turned out to be a day of doom, _Agam._ 791; it is not the Greek heroes who destroyed Troy, but the lying traitor, Sinon, who deceived the Trojans about the wooden horse, _ibid._ 615; mourning for the fall of Troy, _ibid._ 589; distant view of the smouldering ruins as seen by the Greek vessels from the sea on their homeward voyage, _ibid._ 456.
TULLIA, a daughter of Servius Tullius, king of Rome; her impious sin and its punishment, _Oct._ 304.
TYNDARIDAE, Castor and Pollux, the sons of Jupiter and Leda, but falsely named from Tyndarus, the mortal husband of Leda; their stars give help to sailors, _H. Fur._ 14, 552; _Oct._ 208. See CASTOR, LEDA.
TYPHOEUS, one of the Giants who fought against Jove, _Med._ 773; _Thy._ 809.
TYPHON, a giant, apparently the same as Typhoeus, _H. Oet._ 1733; _Oct._ 238.
TYRRHENE, an epithet applied to the band of Phoenician pirates who attempted to kidnap Bacchus, _Oed._ 249; to the dolphin, in reference to the story of how these pirates were changed into dolphins by the power of Bacchus, _Agam._ 451; to the Tuscan Sea, because the Etrurians were supposed to have been of Tyrrhenian stock, _Oct._ 311; and to Inarime, an island, possibly to be identified with Ischia, lying in the Tyrrhene sea off the coast of Campania, _H. Oet._ 1156.
U V VENUS, a goddess, sprung from the foam of the sea, _Hip._ 274; she is the goddess of love, _ibid._ 417, 576, 910; _Oct._ 545; the mother of Erycina, because Mt. Eryx in Sicily was sacred to her, _Hip._ 199; she persecuted the stock of Phoebus (i. e., Pasiphaë and Phaedra), because that god had published her amours with Mars, _ibid._ 124; cursed Messalina with insatiate lust, _Oct._ 258; the effect upon the world which the cessation of the power of Venus would produce, _Hip._ **469; she has no existence, but is feigned by men as a goddess in order to excuse their own lusts, _ibid._ 203; used frequently by metonymy for the passion of love, either lawful or unlawful, _ibid._ 211, 237, 339, VIRGINIA, the daughter of Virginius, slain by her father to save her from the lust of Appius Claudius the decemvir, _Oct._ 296.
VIRGO, the zodiacal constellation of the Virgin, Astraea, the daughter of Jove and Themis, who left the earth last of all the gods on account VULCAN, the god of fire; forges the thunderbolts of Jove, _Hip._ 190; is pierced by Cupid's darts, _ibid._ 193; is called the father of Cupid and husband of Venus, _Oct._ 560.
Z ZETES, a winged son of Boreas, who, together with his brother Calaïs, was a member of the Argonautic expedition; they were slain by Hercules, _Med._ 634; they had previously driven away the harpies from Phineus, king of Thrace, _ibid._ 782.
ZETHUS, a Theban prince, son of Antiope, the niece of Lycus, king of Thebes; he and his twin brother, Amphion, were exposed in infancy on Mt. Cithaeron, but were saved and brought up by shepherds. Arrived at manhood they killed Lycus and Dirce, his wife, on account of their cruelties to Antiope, and together reigned in Thebes. Reference is made to their rustic life in _H. Fur._ 916; the shade of Zethus comes up from hades, still holding by the horn the wild bull to which he had tied Dirce, _Oed._ 610. See DIRCE.
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