TICINUM, a town of Insubria, situate on the river Ticinus, near its confluence with the Po; now Pavia, in Milan.

TICINUS, a river of Italy falling into the Po, near the city of Ticinum, or Pavia; now Tesino.

TIGRANOCERTA, a town of Armenia Major, built by Tigranes in the time of the Mithridatic war.  The river Nicephorus washes one side of the town.  Brotier says, it is now called Sert or Sered.

TIGRIS, a great river bounding the country called Mesopotamia to the east, while the Euphrates incloses it to the west.  Pliny gives an account of the Tigris, in its rise and progress, till it sinks under ground near Mount Taurus, and breaks forth again with a rapid current, falling at last into the Persian Gulf.  It divides into two channels at Seleucia.

TMOLUS, a mountain of Lydia, commended for its vines, its saffron, its fragrant shrubs, and the fountain-head of the Pactolus.  It appears from Tacitus, that there was a town of the same name, that stood near the mountain.

TOLBIACUM, a town of Gallia Belgica; now Zulpich, or Zulch, a small town in the duchy of Juliers.

TRALLES, formerly a rich and populous city of Lydia, not far from the river Meander.  The ruins are still visible.

TRAPEZUS, now Trapezond or Trebizond, a city with a port in the Lesser Asia, on the Euxine.

TREVIRI, the people of Treves; an ancient city of the Lower Germany, on the Moselle.  It was made a Roman colony by Augustus, and became the most famous city of Belgic Gaul.  It is now the capital of an electorate of the same name.

TRIBOCI, a people of Belgica, originally Germans.  They inhabited Alsace, and the diocese of Strasbourg.

TRIMETUS, an island in the Adriatic; one of those which the ancients called Insulae Diomedeae; it still retains the name of Tremiti.  It lies near the coast of the Capitanate, a province of the kingdom of Naples, on the Gulf of Venice.

TRINOBANTES, a people of Britain, who inhabited Middlesex and Essex.

TUBANTES, an ancient people of Germany, about Westphalia.

TUNGRI, a people of Belgia.  Their city, according to Caesar, Atuaca; now Tongeren, in the bishopric of Liege.

TURONII, a people of ancient Gaul, inhabiting the east side of the Ligeris (now the Loire).  Hence the modern name of Tours.

TUSCULUM, a town of Latium, to the north of Alba, about twelve miles from Rome.  It gave the name of Tusculanum to Cicero’s villa, where that great orator wrote his Tusculan Questions.

TYRUS, an ancient city of Phoenicia, situate on an island so near the continent, that Alexander the Great formed it into a peninsula, by the mole or causey which he threw up during the siege.  See Curtius, lib. iv. s. 7.