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|lshtext=<b>Tīryns</b>: nthis or nthos, f., = Τίρυνς,><br /><b>I</b> a [[very]] [[ancient]] [[town]] in [[Argolis]], [[where]] [[Hercules]] [[was]] brought up, Plin. 4, 5, 9, § 17; Stat. Th. 4, 147; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 662.—Hence, Tīrynthĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to [[Tiryns]], Tirynthian; and [[poet]]., also, of or belonging to [[Hercules]], Herculean: [[heros]], i. e. [[Hercules]], Ov. M. 7, 410; id. F. 2, 349; called also juvenis, id. ib. 2, 305: [[hospes]], id. ib. 1, 547: Tirynthius [[heros]], Chromis, the [[son]] of [[Hercules]], Stat. Th. 6, 489; and Q. [[Fabius]] Maximus ([[because]] the Fabii deduced [[their]] [[origin]] from [[Hercules]]), Sil. 8, 218; cf.: [[Fabius]], Tirynthia [[proles]], id. 2, 3: [[gens]], i. e. Fabia, id. 7, 35: [[pubes]], [[troops]] of [[Tiryns]], Stat. Th. 11, 45: [[tela]], of [[Hercules]], Ov. M. 13, 401: nox, i. e. of the [[conception]] of [[Hercules]], Stat. S. 4, 6, 17: [[aula]], i. e. [[Herculaneum]], id. ib. 2, 2, 109; cf. tecta, i. e. [[Saguntum]], built by [[Hercules]], Sil. 2, 300.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Substt.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tīrynthĭus, i. e. [[Hercules]], Ov. M. 9, 66; 9, 268; 12, 564; id. F. 5, 629; Verg. A. 7, 662; 8, 228.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tīrynthĭa, ae, f., [[Alcmena]], the [[mother]] of [[Hercules]], Ov. M. 6, 112.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tīrynthĭi, ōrum, m., the [[people]] of [[Tiryns]], Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 195.

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