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his time sung*, hymns, and rhaptodicslui.: 



.rnlringKtelrachuid . 

 > on to make 



.pnso n lull octave, or, as the Greek* called 

 il. a diapason. The heptachord soon i-iune iiito ircneral 



-.;.!.. .-.,-' ..Ill, ::' . : tin- (.;. .'>,-, 



Mpecully the Dorian. notwithstanding the vm 



iiiii ini|iii Aiiutln-r very 



important improvement whirh the anticnts unanimously 

 Mfn) to Terpander, U the reduction of the unticut iiutlo- 

 dlP, , is IKOJUUI, which continued unaltered 



for ievcml centurie*. These nomes appear to hnve been 

 of a twofold character: he cither invriiU-il them himself, 

 or lie inin-ly fixed lliOM- which hud hecti used he lore his 

 time. Tlu fixing ol" cei1;iin tunes and melodies he is said 

 to ha- .ir notes which he made over the 



verses of a poem. In this manner he marked the tir 

 hi* own poems, an well as of portions of the Homeric rhap- 

 lodies. His own poetical compositions, which, with the 

 tions of :i uenU, are now lost, consisted of 



hviiins. pronernia, and scolia. 



Miiller, Hislury nf the Literature of Antient (> 

 i.. p. 149, See. ; Bode, Getchichte der Lyrische Dicli: 

 der Hrllfitfn, ii., p. 303, &c.) 

 TERPSTCHOKE. [MUSKS.] 

 TERRA 1)1 I.AVO'RO. [LAVORO, TERRA. DI.] 

 TKRlt.UTNA, a town of the Papal Slate, in the ad- 

 ministrative province of Frosinone, near the borders of 

 the kingdom of Naples, anil on the high road from Rome to 

 Naples. The old town, which is built on the site of the an- 

 tient Anxur, rises in the form of an amphitheatre on the slope 

 of a calcareous rock which isa projection of the ridge called 

 Monti Lepini, leaving but a narrow strip of land between 

 it and the sea, along which runs the high road to Naples 

 in the track of the antient Via Appia. Along the road 

 ie modern buildings ol'Tcmicina, conslnicted by Pins 

 VI.. and ronsisti:!!; ol the post-house and inns, custom- 

 house, granaries, and other structures for public use. The 

 old harbour, which was restored by the emperor Antoninus, 

 li:u been li'iiu' >incc filled up, but remains of the mole are 

 still seen. The old town b en UKmblage of poor-looking 

 houses, perched one above another, unrounded ud over- 

 topped by white cliff's which are seen from afar (Horace, 

 i. 5 , and intermixed with myrtle, orange, and 

 palm trees, and with plants of aloes and cactus. Above 

 all rise the cathedral witli its lolly steeple, an elegant 

 palace built by Pins VI.. the remains of the palace called 

 that of Theodoric, which is a structure of the fifth century 

 of our a>ra, and is situated on the summit of the hill, and 

 about. GOO feet above the sea, and an old castle raised in 

 the middle ages. The cathedral is ornamented with some 

 fine fluted Corinthian columns, which have been taken 

 from a temple of Jupiter now ruined. Remains of a 

 theatre are also seen. The climate of Terracina is \ ery 

 mild and genial in winter, but is unwholesome in summer. 

 The population of the town is 4000 inhabitants. Ter- 

 racina is 30' miles south-east of Rome and M miles north- 

 of Naples. Beyond Terracina. on the side towards 

 Naples, is a detached rock of a pyramidical form, m-aily 

 JKI feet hiirh, one side of which was cut perpendicularly 

 by ('. Appius to make room for his road. About two miles 

 farther i- the frontier of Rome and Naples, where a mili- 

 tary post i y each respective state. (Tournon, 

 '// H'niif ; Vale'ry, /''i//v. /// Untie; 

 Calindri, Saga i il-//n x/,,/',, [>,,ntijiri<i.) 



Anxur wai a -.11 ol thcVolsci long before the 



Roman conquest, waj> taken by the Romans in t 

 403 H.I .. was retaken by sni| '. and taken again 



by tin- Minimus tluee yean after. It afterwards became 

 a Roman colony by the name of Tarracina. During the 

 second Punic war the temple of .Jupiter at Tarracina is 

 mentioned by Livy as having been struck by lightning. 

 (Livy, iv r>:t : \ id 1:1 ; \\vni. 11.) 

 TERRANO'N \ I Su ILY.] 

 TKRK.M'KNK. [Toiui.isiM.] 



TERRA \N, a French writer of the last cen- 



tury. He was horn at Lyon, A.D. I(i7<> : his father was 

 Pierre TerrmHOn. one of a family of considciah!.' eminence 

 and activity in that city, anil a man whose devout temper 

 led him to make all his four suns iof whom .lean was the 

 embers of the Conirreiration ol the Oratory, 

 at Paris in the house of that Society when 

 their father died : Uie three younger remained members of 



.igirgation. but Jean (now a sub-deacon) . 

 position disinclined him to I ie. ipiitted 



however without having ac<|i. 



suh-iable acimainlancc w ith theoloirv. The imp'i,r 

 character which ever distinguished him rendered him the 

 dupt- of men. by whom Inn small patiiniony wa> 

 wa-led : but he found a shelter in the house of a liieiid. 

 M. Ri'moiid. to whose son he became tutor. I 

 ((iiently (\.u. 1714) undertook the education of the H 



-in Mathiell Terrasson, a celebrated advocate in the 

 parliament of Pahs. He had become an associate of the 

 Academie Royale de Sciences, A.D. 17d~. In 171"> In- 

 made his first appearance as an author by taking par! in the 

 dispute then raging on the value of the Homeric Poems 

 and the comparative merits of the untients and nun; 

 His work was entitled Dissertation Critique MU- lliade 

 d'Hon:' 1 . 12mo., Paris: it met with a favoiuable 



reeejition from those who joined in or approved of the 

 ittacks then made on Homer, who was M-VI rely criticized. 

 Next year Terrasson published an addition tohisdissertation 

 on Homer, in 12mo.. in reply to Andre Dacier. by whom he 

 liad been attacked. In A.D. 1719 the financial system of Law 

 enabled Terrasson to obtain a large fortune, and induced 

 him to form an establishment and set up his carriage : but 

 wealth was to him rather a source of embarrassment than 

 of pleasure ; and when he lost his fortune the next year in 

 the financial change which took place, he content edly 

 ohseiAcd that it would be more convenient to him to live on 

 a little. In A.D. 17'JO he published a small work in del 

 of Law's financial schemes, entitled 'Trui- 1.- I're- -m- le.Nou- 

 veau SystSme des Finances.' f>(l pp.. -Ito., Paris, and another 

 small work in defence of the French India Company. He 

 saved some small part of his fortune from the general 

 wreck : and this, with the income of a profes-sorship, w 

 he obtained next year (A.D. 1721) in the College Royal, 

 and a pension subsequently conferred by the en 

 rendered his circumstances easy for the rest of Ins life. 

 He became a member of the Academic Franci-.i-e \ a. 

 1732. 



In 1731 Terrasson published a romance in imitation of 

 the ' Telemaque ' of Frf'nelon. It was entitled Set ho*,' 

 :t vols. 12mo., Paris, and professed to be a translation of a 

 Greek manuscript. The scene is laid chiefly in K;r\|-t. 

 This work obtained sufficient circulation to go through 

 : editions, of which the last was in 1813, inO\ols. 

 I8mo., but never became popular. An English transla- 

 tion was published in London in 17;t-. In the years 

 17-17-44 he published the seven successive volumes in 

 1 21110. of a translation of Diodoms Siculus. This transla- 

 tion has been reprinted once or twice, but is very inaceu- 

 Mte. This was his last work of any extent. His memory 

 and his bodily strength gradually failed, and he died \.i>. 

 17:~K), aged 80. 



He wrote also a treatise entitled ' De 1'Intini Cn'-e,' of 

 which he allowed one or two transcripts to he taken during 

 his life : but it was never published, nor was the original 

 manuscript found among nis papers at his deeea-e. Hi- 

 left also a small work, published alter his decease, entitled 

 - l.:i Philosophic applicable a tons les Objets de 1'Ksprit et 

 de la Raison' (Pans, 8vo., 17") I . 



From an anonymous letter printed, with one or two 

 other pieces, at the commencement of this small volume, 

 and containing a biographical notice of Terramon, we have 

 derived the substance of this article. See also the Huge de 

 T'-ri-iiiixon, by D'Alemhert ; Qucrard, La France Littti 



ivtrttUt. 



TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM. This term is used to 

 denote the action of the magnetic fluid in or about tlu> 

 earth: the effects of that action being manifested in tin- 

 phenomena presented by magnetized needles - 



The general polarity of a magnetized needle when sup- 

 ported or suspended in a balanced state, and its inclination 

 to the horizon, with the slow variations to which those 

 element*, as well as the intensity of the magnet ii 

 subject, are phenomena which are conceived to aiisc from 

 causes existing in the earth and pervading its whole mass; 

 while the temporary effects, a.s the diurnal variations of 

 the needle, are supposed to depend upon clcctrieal cur- 

 rents produced bv variations cil temperature at the si 

 in consequi nee of the changes in the sun's position with 

 respect to the hoii/on. and pel haps from other circum- 

 stances: finally, great tcmpoiary discharges of electricity 

 j in the iipp- "f the atmosphere may be the cause* 



