. e wine ofTenos was celebrated in antiquity and is stillvalued at the present day. Tentyra (ts Tevrvpa : TecTupiVrjs, Tentyrites:Dernier ah, Bu.), a city of Upper Egypt, on theW. bank of the Nile, between Abydos andCoptos, with celebrated temples of Hathor—theQueen of Heaven ( = Aphrodite), who was spe-cially worshipped there—of Isis, and of Typhon(Strab. p. 814; Ptol. iv. 5, 6). Its people weredistinguished for their hatred of the crocodile;and upon this and the contrary propensities ofthe people of Ombi, Juvenal founds his fifteen
. e wine ofTenos was celebrated in antiquity and is stillvalued at the present day. Tentyra (ts Tevrvpa : TecTupiVrjs, Tentyrites:Dernier ah, Bu.), a city of Upper Egypt, on theW. bank of the Nile, between Abydos andCoptos, with celebrated temples of Hathor—theQueen of Heaven ( = Aphrodite), who was spe-cially worshipped there—of Isis, and of Typhon(Strab. p. 814; Ptol. iv. 5, 6). Its people weredistinguished for their hatred of the crocodile;and upon this and the contrary propensities ofthe people of Ombi, Juvenal founds his fifteenthSatire. [Ombi.] There are still magnificent re-mains of the temples of Hathor and Isis. Teos [r\ Tews : Trjios, Telus : Sighajik), one ofthe Ionian cities on the coast of Asia Minor, re-nowned as the birthplace of the lyric poet Ana-cbeon. It stood on the S. side of the isthmuswhich connects the peninsula of M. Mimas withthe mainland of Lydia, at the bottom of the baybetween the promontories of Coryceum andMyonnesus (Strab. p. 663; Hdt. i. 142). It was. Coin of Teos in Ionia, of 5th cent. )., griffin (symbol of Asiatic Dionysus; rev., ArNONTHinN : in incuse square. a flourishing seaport, until, to free themselvesfrom the Persian yoke, most of its inhabitantsretired to Abdera (Hdt. i. 168). It was still,however, a place of importance in the time ofthe Boman emperors (Mel. i. 17 ; Ptol. v. 2, 6; Plin. v. 138). It had two harbours, and a cele-brated temple of Dionysus, of which, as well asof the theatre, there are fine remains. Teredon (Tep-qSdv : prob. Dorah), a city ofBabylonia, on the W. side of the Tigris, belowits junction with the Euphrates, and not farfrom its mouth. It was a great emporium forthe traffic with Arabia. It is no doubt theDiridotis (AipiSarts) of Arrian. Terentia. 1. Wife of M. Cicero, the orator,to whom she bore two children, a son and adaughter. She was a woman of sound senseand great firmness of character. After Cicerosbanishment in 58, Te
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