Chapter Twig to Tyrtæus of T by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Typhoeus A giant with a hundred heads, fearful eyes, and a most terrible voice. He was the father of the Harpies. Zeus [Zucc ] killed him with a thunderbolt, and he lies buried under Mount Etna. (Hesiod: Theogony.) (See Giants .)

Typhon Son of Typhoeus, the giant with a hundred heads. He was so tall that he touched the skies with his head. His offspring were Gorgon, Geryon, Cerberus, and the hydra of Lerne. Like Ins father, he lies buried under Etna. (Homer: Hymns.) (See Giants .)

Typhoon' The evil genius of Egyptian mythology; also a furious whirling wind in the Chinese seas. (Typhoon or typhon, the whirling wind, is really the Chinese t'ai-fun [the great wind].)

“Beneath the radiant line that girts the globe,
The circling Typhon, whirled from point to point.
Exhausting all the rage of all the sky,
And dire Eenephia, reign.”
Thomson: Summer.

Tyr Son of Odin, and younger brother of Thor. The wolf Fenrir bit off his hand. (Scandinavian mythology.)

Tyrant did not originally mean a despot, but an absolute prince, and especially one who made himself absolute in a free state. Napoleon III. would have been so called by the ancient Greeks. Many of the Greek tyrants were pattern rulers, as Pisistratos and Pericles, of Athens; Periander, of Corinth; Dionysios the Younger, Gelon, and his brother Hiero, of Syracuse; Polycrates, of Samos; Phidion, of Argos, etc. etc. (Greek, turannos, an absolute king, like the Czar of Russia.)
   Tyrant of the Chersonese. Miltiade was so called, and yet was he, as Byron says, “Freedom's best and bravest friend.” (See Thirty Tyrants.)
   A tyrant's vein. A ranting, bullying manner. In the old moralities the tyrants were made to rant, and the loudness of their rant was proportionate to the villainy of their dispositions. Hence to out-Herod Herod is to rant more loudly than Herod; to o'erdo Termagant is to rant more loudly than Termagant. (See Pilate, Voice.)

Tyre in Dryden's satire of Absalom and Achitophel, means Holland; Egypt means France.

“I mourn, my countrymen, your lost estate ...
Now all your liberties a spoil are made.
Egypt and Tyrus intercept your trade.”
Part i. 700-707.

Tyrtæus The Spanish Tyrtæus. Manuel José Quintana, whose odes otimulated the Spaniards to vindicate their liberty at the outbreak of the War of Independence. (1772- 1857.)