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route fi-om Colonia Trajana to Colonia Agrippina, between 

 Mederiacum and Coriovallum. Anton. Itin. 



THEVEN, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the pro- 

 vince of Lariftan ; 40 miles E. of Lar. 



THEVENARD, Gabriel Vincent, of Paris, in Bio- 

 graphy, born in 1669, became in the operas of Liilli the firll 

 iinger and aftor of his time. He had a tenor voice, whicli 

 made the public forget that of Beaumavielle ; it was fono- 

 rous, mellow, and extenfive in compafs. He fung a little 

 through the throat, but by dint of art, he found the means 

 of rendering this little deteft even agreeable. His appear- 

 ance on the ftage was dignified, and his performance won- 

 derful ! It was to him that the prefent manner ( 1780) of 

 fpeaking recitative is due. He excelled above all in fmging 

 at table ; nor has he ever been furpafled in that talent, ex- 

 cept by De Chaffe and JeUote, who fo many years delighted 

 their friends. 



He fung more than forty years at the Opera, and only 

 retired in the year 1730. He was more than fixty years 

 old, when, feeing a beautiful female flipper in a rtioemaker's 

 fliop, he fell violently in love, unfight, unfeen, with the 

 perfon for whom it was made ; and having difcovered the 

 lady, married her, after obtaining the confent of an uncle on 

 whom the was dependent, with the affiftance of many bot- 

 tles of wine which they cracked together with tlie utmoft 

 cordiality, and whicli Thevenard meliorated with the charms 

 of his voice. 



He died at Paris in 1741, at the age of 72. Thevenard 

 was the caufe of the duke d'Antin quitting the manage- 

 ment of the opera. This finger having a penfion offered 

 him for his fervices, found it fo inconfiderable, that he re- 

 fufed to accept of it, faying it was only fit for his footman. 

 The duke, piqued at tliis infolence, would have fent him to 

 prifon ; but it having been reprefented to him that the 

 public would fuffer by his abfence, he facrificed to this con- 

 fideration his refentment ; but determining to have nothing 

 more to do with fuch people, he quitted the fuperintend- 

 ance of the opera. Laborde. 



THEVENOT, John, a traveller in the Levant, was 

 born in Lorraine, and after repeated journies, died in Perfia 

 in 1667. He is faid to have introduced the ufe of coffee 

 into France. His "Voyage in Afia" was pubhfhedin 1664, 

 which is a work confiderably elleemed, and has been often 

 re-edited. The Amflerdam edition in 1 2mo., 1 727, is com- 

 prifed in 5 vols. Nouv. Dift. Hiflor. 



Thevenot, NrcHOLAS Melchisedec, a writer of travels, 

 was born in 1621, probably at Paris, and having finifhed his 

 fludics, indulged his propenfity for vifiting foreign countries, 

 confining himfelf chiefly to various parts of Europe. Some 

 perfons have given him the credit of being a great linguift, 

 but this is difputed by Huet, who was perfonally ac- 

 quainted with him. The refult of his obfcrvations and in- 

 quiries was publiflied in a " Colleftion of Voyages and 

 Travels," eomprifed in 4 vols. fol. from 1663 to 1672. 

 Thevenot was a great colleftor of books, confifling of more 

 than 2000 volumes, in which the royal library, of which 

 he was keeper, was deficient. Nointel, on returning from 

 his embafTy to Conflantinople, enriched this coUeftion by a 

 prefent of his marbles, infcriptions, and bas-rehefs. He 

 died in 1692. From various MSS. in the royal library, he 

 had compiled "The Works of Ancient Mathematicians," 

 an edition of which was publifhed after his death. Moreri, 

 Huet. 



THEVET, Andrew, a traveller and writer, was born 

 at Angouleme in 1502 ; and being defirou's of vifiting 

 foreign countries, he obtained, by the interefl of the cardinal 

 ■sf Lorraine, an opportunity of going to Jerufalem. His 



travels in the Levant occupied him from 1549 to 1 JJ4 ; and 

 after his return to France, he accompanied the fieur de 

 Villegaignon, in 1555, to found a colony in Brazil. In 

 1 556 he took the habit of an ccclefiaflic, and was appointed 

 almoner to queen Catharine de Medicis. He alfo obtained 

 the titles of hiiloriographer and cofmographer royal, and 

 died at Paris in 1590, at the advanced age of 88 years. 

 Befides other works, he publifhed " Cofmographie du 

 Levant," 1554, 4to. ; " Les Singularites de la France An- 

 tarftique," 1588, 410. ; and "Cofmographie Univerfelle," 

 2 vols. fol. 1575; but unfortunately his veracity is quef- 

 tionable. Moreri. 



THEVESTE, Tiffeste, in Ancient Geography, a town 

 of Africa, fituated on a delightful plain in the interior 

 of the country, on the banks of a river, E. of Sigus, and 

 E.S.E. of Cirta. In Anton. Itin. this town has the title of 

 a Roman colony, and is placed on the route from Carthage 

 to Csfarea, between Ammcdara Colonia and Attaba. 

 THEVET. See Teuet. 



THEVETIA, in Botany, a name given by Linnxus, iit 

 his Hortus Cliffort'ianus 75, to a genus diftinguifhed by Plu- 

 mier, and other authors, under the American appellation of 

 Ahouai. The perfon commemorated by the above name was 

 Andre Thevet, a French monk, who travelled to Brafil, of 

 which he publiflied an account in 1554, under the title of 

 Les Smgidarite% de la France AntarB'ique, autrcmcnt nommee 

 Amerique, Sec. Of this book there are feveral editions, with 

 rude wooden cuts, and fomc accounts of plants, amongft 

 which the Ahouai is, for the firft time, defcribed. The 

 author, according to De Theis, died in 1590, about the age 

 of eighty-eight. Haller fays he has injudicioufly applied 

 pafTages in the writings of the ancients to the productions of 

 the new world ; and that he has defcribed many countries 

 which he never yifited. Linnaeus himfelf appears not to 

 have been fatisfied with the honour he was conferring, for he 

 fays he fliould not be difplcafed with any perfon who might 

 change this name for another. He fubfequently retained it 

 as a fpecific name only, when the genus in queflion was funk 

 in his owH Cekbera. See that article. 



THEU-PROSOPON, in Ancient Geography, a promon- 

 tory of Phoenicia, between Tripolis and Botrys. Mela calls 

 it Euprofopon. 



THEURGY, SfoDf/iK, a name which the ancients gave to 

 that facred part of magic which we fometimes call white 

 magic, or the nuhite art. 



The word is formed from ©sor, God, and ffyov, work ; 

 q. d, the art of doing divine things, or things which God 

 alone can do : or the power of working extraordinary and 

 fupernatural things, by invoking the names of God, faints, 

 angels, &c. 



Accordingly, thofe who have written of magic in the ge- 

 neral, divide it into three parts : the firfl of which is called 

 theurgy, as operating by divine or celeftial means ; the fe- 

 cond, natural magic, performed by the powers of nature ; 

 and the third, necromancy, which proceeds by invoking 

 daemons. 



This theurgy, or pretended art of fo purging and refining 

 that faculty of the mind, which receives the images of things, 

 as to render it capable of perceiving the daemons, and of 

 performing many marvellous things by their aiTiftancc, was 

 adopted by the difciples of Ammonius towards the clofe of 

 the fecond century. Ammonius, the founder of the feft-of 

 modern Platonics (fee Platonism), with a view of recon- 

 ciling the popular rehgions of different countries, and parti- 

 cularly the Chriflian, v\ith his own fyftem, turned into mere 

 allegory the whole hiflory of the gods, and maintained that 

 thofe beings, whom the priefls and people dignified with this 

 3X3 title, 



