Tirynthia

Tīryns, nthis or nthos, f., = Tiruns, 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.—

B.

Substt.

1.

Tīrynthĭus, i. e. Hercules, Ov. M. 9, 66; 9, 268; 12, 564; id. F. 5, 629; Verg. A. 7, 662; 8, 228.—

2.

Tīrynthĭa, ae, f., Alcmena, the mother of Hercules, Ov. M. 6, 112.—

3.

Tīrynthĭi, ōrum, m., the people of Tiryns, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 195.