Definitions for Tereus

Tereus Te·re·us

Spelling: [teer-ee-uh s, teer-yoos]
IPA: /ˈtɪər i əs, ˈtɪər yus/

Tereus is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in Tereus (eerstu).

Definitions for Tereus

noun

  1. a Thracian prince, the husband of Procne, who raped his sister-in-law Philomela and was changed into a hoopoe as a punishment.

Examples for Tereus

The tragical distractions of Tereus and Thyestes are nonsense to us.

Tell me what Tereus, or what Jason excites you to pierce your body with an anxious hand?

Having brought the war, with the aid of Tereus, to a happy end, he gave him his daughter Procne to wife.

Another similar instance is the 'voice of the shuttle' in the Tereus of Sophocles.

Why, Philomela, are you complaining of the cruelty of Tereus, the Ismarian tyrant?

Ovid, in his version of the fable of Tereus, does not introduce the thorn; so probably the allusion is not classical.

Another instance is the 'shuttle's voice' in the Tereus of Sophocles.

Thereafter Procne and her sister fled together, and Tereus seized an axe and followed after them.

In Phocis, he found the belief still existing that larks laid no eggs there because of the sin of Tereus.

Tereus is changed into a crested bird, either a hoopoe or a lapwing.

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