. A dictionary of the Bible .. . Hercules, andof the reigning emperor. On the coins before theimperial times, the heads of Bacchus, of Athen6,and of Cybele, are also found : but the inscriptionsonly indicate a cult of the last of these. (Stiabo, xiii. c. 4; Pliny, N. H. v. 31; 8, 21, 44; Polybias, xvi. 1, xxxii. 25;Stephanus Byzant. sub v. QudreLpa ; Boeckh, In-script. Graec. Thi/atir., especially Nos. 3484-3499 ;Suidas, V. ^afxp-qdri; Aelian, Var. Hist. xii. 35 ;Chnton, F. If. ii. 221 ; HoHinann, Griechenland,ii. 1714.) [J. W. B.] THYINE WOOD HiXov QiXvov: lipiumthi/inum) occurs o
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . Hercules, andof the reigning emperor. On the coins before theimperial times, the heads of Bacchus, of Athen6,and of Cybele, are also found : but the inscriptionsonly indicate a cult of the last of these. (Stiabo, xiii. c. 4; Pliny, N. H. v. 31; 8, 21, 44; Polybias, xvi. 1, xxxii. 25;Stephanus Byzant. sub v. QudreLpa ; Boeckh, In-script. Graec. Thi/atir., especially Nos. 3484-3499 ;Suidas, V. ^afxp-qdri; Aelian, Var. Hist. xii. 35 ;Chnton, F. If. ii. 221 ; HoHinann, Griechenland,ii. 1714.) [J. W. B.] THYINE WOOD HiXov QiXvov: lipiumthi/inum) occurs once only, viz. in Rev. xviii. 12,where the margin has sweet (wood). It is men-tioned as one of the valuable articles of commercethat should be found no more in Babylon (Rome),whose fall is here predicted by St. John. There canbe little doubt that the wood here spoken of is thatof the Thuya articulata, Desfont., the Callltris quad-rivalris of present botanists. This tree wns muchprized by the ancient Greeks and Romans, on account. Thuya uriicuUOa. of the beauty of its wood for various ornamentalpurposes. It is the dveia of Theoplirastus (^, iii. 4, §§2, G); the dvivov i^vKov of Dios-corides (i. 21). By the Romans the tree was calledcitrus, the wood citrum. It is a native of Barbary,and grows to the height of 15 to 25 feet. Pliny(N. H. xiii. 15) says that the citrus is found abun-dautl} in Mauretania. He speaks of a mania amongsthis countrymen tijr tables made of its wood ; andtells us that when the Roman ladies were upbraidedby their husbands for their extravagance in pearls,they retorted upon them their excessive fondness fortables made of this wood. Fabulous prices weregiven for tables and other ornamental furnituremade of citrus wood (see Pliny, I. c). TheGreek and Roman writers frequently allude tothis wood. See a number of references in Cel-sius, Hicrob. ii. The roof of the mosque at 149(3 TIBEKIAS Cordova, built in the 9th cent., is of thyine wood (Loudons
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