Volney considered the eclipse [of Thales] to have taken place B

C. 625 ("Recherches, etc.," vol. i. p. 342). Clinton places it B. C. 603 (F. H. vol. i. p. 419). Ideler considers that no eclipse about this period fulfils the nece ary cond i. tions except that of B. C. 610 ("Handbuch der Chronologie," vol. i. p. 209). Mr. Hind and Profe or Airy have recently suggested the late date of B. C. 585 (Bosanquet, "Fall of Nineveh," p. 14). Rawlinson, Herod., I. 359, note. Thales, or Thaletas (tha-lē'tas). [Gr. Θαλῆς, Θαλήτας.] Born in Crete: lived about the 7th century B. c. A lyric poet and musician of Sparta. Thalia (thā-li'ä). [Gr. Θάλεια , Θαλία .] 1. In Greek mythology, the joyful Muse, to whom is due the bloom of life. She inspired gaiety; was the patrone of the banquet accompanied by song and music; and also favored rural pursuits and pleasures. At alate period she became the Muse of comedy, and to the Romans was little known in any other character. In the later art she is crook, and a wreath of ivy. generally represented with a comic mask, a shepherd's 2. An asteroid (No. 23) discovered at London by Hind, Dec. 15, 1852. Thallo (thal'ō). [Gr. Θαλλώ.] In Greek my thology, one of the Hours. Thame (tām). A river in Bucking hams hire and Oxfords hire, England, which joins the Thames (of which it is a main tributary) at Dor chester. Length, about 35 miles. Thame. A town in Oxfords hire, England, situated on the Thame 13 miles east of Oxford. Population (1891), 3,335. Thames (temz). (Early mod. E. also Thamys, Tames, Temse, ME. Temse , AS. Temes, Temese, Tæmese , L. Tamesis (Cæsar), Tamesa (Tacitus), Gr. Ταμέσα or Ταμέσας (Dion Ca ius), and said to be Celtic, meaning 'broad water.' The F. Tamise is from the L., G. Themse from the E.] The principal river in Great Britain. It rises near Ciren. cester; flows on the border between Gloucester and Wilts hire; separates Oxford and Bucking ham from Berks hire, Middle sex from Surrey, and E ex from Kent; and, broadening into an estuary, flows into the North Sea. Its course is generally easterly. To its junction with the Thame it is called also the Isis. The principal tributaries are the Cher well, Thame, Colne, Lea, and Roding on the north, and the Kennet, Mole, and Medway on the south. The chief places on its banks are Oxford, Reading, Windsor, Eton, Kingston, Richmond, Brent ford, London, Woolwich, Crave send, and Sheerne . Length to Sheerne , 228 miles. Width at London Bridge, 900 feet; at Grave send, half a mile. It is tidal to Tedding ton, and is navigable by locks for barges from Lechlade; for large ve els, from the Pool, London. Thames. A river in Ontario, Canada, which flows into Lake St. Clair 32 miles east of Detroit. Near its banks, Oct. 5, 1813, the Americans under Harrison (cavalry under R. M. Johnson) defeated the allied British (under Proctor) and Indians (under Tecumseh, who was killed in the battle). Length, about 160 miles; navigable to Chas am. Thames (thamz). A navigable river in Connecticut, formed by the junction at Norwich of the Quinebaug and the Yantic. It empties into Long Island Sound below New London. Length, 15 miles. Thames Embankment. A wide macadamized carriageway, with foot-pavements on each side, constructed 1864-70 by the Metropolitan Board of Works in London along the north bank of the Thames, from Black friars Bridge to West minster. Strictly this is the Victoria Embankment, while the Albert Embankment, finished 1868, extends from Westminster Bridge to Vauxhall Bridge on the south bank, and the Chelsea Embankment, finished 1873, extends from the Chelsea Hospital to the Albert Suspension Bridge on the north bank. These embankments have a granite wall on the river side; the whole area was once covered by the tide. Thames Tunnel. A tunnel under the Thames at London, near the Tower, opened in 1843. Thamien (tha'mi-en). A tribe of North American Indians which formerly inhabited the country between the Almaden mines and Alviso Landing, Santa Clara County, California; also, the native name of the site of Santa Clara mis sion. See Cost a no an. Thammuz. See Tammuz . Thamyris (tham'i-ris). [Gr. Θάμυρις .] In Greek legend, a Thracian singer. He boasted that he could surpa the Muses, and was deprived by them of his sight and of the power of singing. Thanatopsis (than-a-top's is). [From Gr. θάνα τος and ὄψις , vision: 'a "a vision of death.] A poem by William Cullen Bryant, published in 1816. Thanatos (than'a-tos). [Gr. θάνατος , death.] In Greek mythology, the personification of death, brother of Sleep. See Sleep and Death . Thanet (than'et), Isle of. An island at the east Lorraine, situated on the Thur 23 miles southwest of Kolmar. It has manufactures of cotton and silk, and wine is produced in the vicinity. Its church of St. Theobald is noteworthy. Population (1890), 7,425. Thano. See Tano . Thapsacus (thap'sa-kus). In ancient geography, a town on the western bank of the Euphrates: the biblical Tiphsah. It was probably situated near the modern Rakka, about lat. 35° 50′ N. The Euphrates was cro ed here in the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, by Darius, and by Alexander the Great. Thapsus (thap's us). In ancient geography, a town in northern Africa, situated on the coast, near the modern Cape Dimas in Tunis, 30 miles southeast of Susa. Here, 46 B. C., Cæsar totally defeated the Pompeians under Cato, Scipio, and Juba, and ended the war in Africa. Thar and (tä ränt). A small town in the kingdom of Saxony, situated on the Wilde Wei eritz, 9 miles southwest of Dresden. It is the seat of a noted academy of forestry. Thargelia (thär-geʻli-ä). [Gr. Θαργήλια.] In Greek antiquity, a festival celebrated at Athens on the 6th and 7th of the month Thar gel i on, in honor of the Delian Apollo and of Artemis. On the first day of the festival (probably not every year) there was an expiatory sacrifice of two persons, for the men and the women of the state respectively, the victims being condemned criminals; on the second day there were a proce ion and a contest for a tripod between cyclic choruses provided by the choragi. Tharrawaddy (thar-a-wod'i). A district in Pegu division, British Burma, intersected by lat. 18o N. Area, 2,014 square miles. Population (1891), 347,454. Thasos (tha's os). [Gr. Θάσος .] 1. An island in the northern part of the Ægean Sea, intersected by lat. 40° 40′ N. It belongs to Turkey, and is about 4 miles from the mainland. The surface is mountainous. It was colonized from Paros about the end of the 8th century B. C.; was long noted for its gold-mines; belonged to the A then i an confederacy; revolted about 465 B. c., but was besieged and subjugated by Cimon; was subject to Philip V. of Macedon; and was a free city under the Romans. The inhabitants (Greeks) number about 10,000. Length, 15 miles. 2. The ancient capital of Thasos, situated on the northern coast. Thatcher (thach'er), Benjamin Bu ey. Born at Warren, Maine, Oct. 8, 1809: died at Boston, July 14, 1848. An American author. His works include "Biography of North American Indians" (1832), "Tales of the American Revolution" (1846), etc. Thatcher, Henry Knox. Born at Thomas ton, Maine, May 26, 1806: died at Boston, April 5, 1880. An American rear-admiral. He served in the attacks on Fort Fisher, and commanded the Western Gulf Squadron in the naval operations against Mobile in 1865. Thau (tō), Etang de. A lake in the department of Hérault, southern France, situated near the Mediterranean (with which it communicates by a canal) near Cette. Length, 12 miles. Thaumaturgus (thâ-ma-tergus). [L., from Gr. θαυματουργός, wonder-working.] A given to Gregory of Cappadocia (3d century), a reputed worker of miracles. Thaumaturgus of the West, The. A name given to St. Bernard. surname Thaxter (thaks'ter), Mrs. (Celia Leighton). Born at Portsmouth, N. H., 1835: died at the Isles of Shoals, Aug. 26, 1894. An American poet. She wrote "Among the Isles of Shoals," "Drift weed,” “Poems for Children," etc. Thayer (thar), Abbott Henderson. Born at Boston, Aug. 12, 1849. An American animal-, figure, and landscape-painter. He was a student at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under Lehmann and Gérôme from 1875 to 1879. Upon his return to America he settled in New York, and was made president of the Society of American Artists. Thayer, Joseph Henry. Born at Boston, Nov. 7, 1828: died Nov. 26, 1901. An American biblical scholar, profe or at And over Theological Seminary 1864-82, and at the Divinity School, Harvard, 1884-1901. Theætet us (thē-ē-tē'tus). [ Gr.Θεαίτητος .] Lived about the end of the 5th century B. C. An A then i an, a disciple of So crates. He is the principal character in one of the most famous of Plato's dialogues. The a genes (the-aj'e-nez). [Gr. Θεαγένης.] Α tyrant of Megara, who ruled about the end of the 7th century B. c. The a genes and Chariclea (kar-i-klē'ä). An ancient romance by one Heliodor us, written in the 4th century. It recounts the loves and adventures of The a genes, a The alian, and Chariclea, the daughter of The a genes and Chariclea Persina, queen of Ethiopia. It was rendered into English prose by Thomas Under down (1577), and into French by Amyot. It "supplied with materials many of the early writers of romance. It was imitated in the composition of Achilles Tatius and subsequent Greek fablers; and was the model of those heroic fictions which, through the writings of Gomberville and Scudéry, became for a considerable period so popular and prevalent in France" ( Dunlop ). Also called Ethiopica . The at ins, or The a tines (the'a-tinz). [From The ate or Teate , Chieti.] A monastic order of regular clerks, founded at Rome in 1524, principally by the Archbishop of Chieti, in Italy, with the purpose of combating the Reformation. There were also The at in nuns. The order flourished to some extent in Spain, Bavaria, and Poland, but its influence is now confined chiefly to Italy. Theatre, The. The first London theater. It was a wooden building erected by James Burbage, the father of Richard Burbage, in 1576, on the site of the priory of St. John the Baptist, Shore ditch, which was destroyed at the Reformation. It was taken down in 1597, and the Globe, Bankside, built of the materials. Théâtre de la Foire (tä-ätr' dė lä fwär). [F., 'theater of the fair.'] A theater set up by provincial comedians at the fairs of St.-Germain and St.-Laurent, outside of Paris. These theaters had privileges, in the interests of commerce, which the regular theaters had not. The plays were originally given by marionettes, and their performance can be traced as far back as 1595. Le Sage, Fuselier, Dominique, Dorneval, Boi y, Sedaine, and others wrote for it, Le Sage alone writing more than 100 little pieces, farces, etc., with or without songs. Théâtre Français (tä-ätr' fron-sa'), Le. The most noted theater in France. It is situated on the Place du Théatre Français, Rue St.-Honoré, near the Palais Royal, in Paris. Its rights having been restricted during the Revolution, Napoleon reinstated it in nearly sole po e ion of the right of producing cla ic drama. Its present constitution was given to it in 1830, and it is now the chief home of the regular drama, and receives a subsidy from the government. It has a governing board of six, who in turn are supervised by government officials. It was almost entirely destroyed by fire, March 8, 1900. See Comédie Française , La . Théâtre It alien, or Les It aliens (tā-ätr' e-tälyan' or lāzē-tä-lyan'). The name given to the old Italian opera-house in the Rue Le Peletier in Paris. For many years the lyric drama was given here. In 1875 the new opera-house was opened. Theatre Royal. Same as Drury Lane Theatre (which see). It was the first London theater so named. Thebaid (thēbā-id), The. [L. Thebais , Gr. Θηβαΐς.] In ancient geography, the domain of Thebes in Egypt, or Upper Egypt. It included the valley of the Nile from about lat. 27° 45' N. southward to Syene (about lat. 24° N.). Thebaid, The. An epic poem by Statius, relating to the expedition of the Seven against Thebes. This poem, which is admitted by Merivale to be faultle in epic execution, and has been glorified by the admiration of Dante, occupied the author twelve years in the composing, probably from 80 to 92 A. D.