Thoantis

Thŏas, antis, m., = Thoas.

I.

A king of the Chersonesus Taurica, under whom Iphigenia was priestess of the Tauric Diana; he was slain by Orestes, Ov. P. 3, 2, 59; id. Tr. 1, 9, 28; 4, 4, 66.—Hence, Thŏantēus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Thoas; poet. for Tauric:

Diana,

Val. Fl. 8, 208; Sil. 14, 260;

called also dea,

Ov. Ib. 386. —

II.

A king of Lemnos, father of Hypsipyle, by whom he was conveyed to Chios, when the women of Lemnos slew all the men there, Hyg. Fab. 15; Ov. H. 6, 135; id. M. 13, 399; Stat. Th. 5, 239 sq.—Hence,

1.

Thŏantĭ-ăs, ădis, f., daughter of Thoas, i. e. Hypsipyle, Ov. H. 6, 163. —

2.

Thŏantis, ĭdis, f., the same, Stat. Th. 5, 650; 5, 700.—

III.

An Ætolian, son of Andræmon, one of the Greeks who besieged Troy, Verg. A. 2, 262; Hyg. Fab. 81; 97; 114.—

IV.

A companion of Æneas, Verg. A. 10, 415.