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tlie Titans were the dcfcendants of Gomer, the fon of 

 Japhet. He adds, that tlie word Titan is perfett Celtic, 



• and derives it from t'lt, earth, and (hn or ten, man : and hence 

 it was the Greeks alfo called them very properly •ynyivsis, q. d. 

 teirigiiitt, earth-born. 



Banicr obferves, that although moft of the ancients have 

 confounded the giants (fee RM Giants) with the 

 Titans, they ought to be' dilliiiguiflied. The latter, he 

 fays, were of an illuftrious family, and extended their empire 

 over one part of the world ; the others were fo many banditti 

 difperfed over ThefTaly, who occafioned great trouble to 

 the Titans. Hefiod diiliiiguiflies them from one another, 

 and Hates' that the giants were not born till long after tlie 



~ overthrow of the Titans, and after the wars which thefe 

 carried on againft the others. The occafion of confounding 

 them feems to have been, that both the giants and the 

 Titans made war upon the gods ; with this difference, that 

 the Titans, though of the fame race, had often feparate 

 interells ; fome taking part with Saturn, and others of them 

 with Jupiter : whereas the giants were a gang of robbers, 

 who had a defign equally upon all the Titans. Both giants 

 and Titans were reprefented as fons of Heaven and Earth, 

 and hence they have been confounded, for want of con- 

 fidering, what Apollodorus fays, that Earth brought fortli 

 the giants only bccaufe flie was incenfed againll Jupiter 

 for keeping the Titans flint up in Tartarus. Thus the 

 Titans were born long before the giants. 



The Titans, according to the learned Mr. Bryant, were 

 thofe Cuthites, or fons of Chus, called giants, who were 

 employed in building the tower of Babel, and who were 

 afterwards <lifperfed. See Dispersion of Mankind. 



He fuppofes that they were denominated from their reli- 

 gion and place of worfliip, T'lt^ta, which is reprefented as 

 the mother of thefe people, being compounded of Th-a'ia, 

 and fignifying literally a breajl of earth, analogous to tjtOos 

 «i.-;.: of the Greeks, and therefore expreffing the figure as 

 well as the materials of the ancient altars, which confifted of 



, a conical hill of earth, in the fhape of a woman's breafl. 

 Thefe altars were alfo called Ttt-an and Tit-anis, from the 

 great fountain of light, flyled y/« and ylnls. Hence many 

 places were called Titanis and Tltana, where the worfhip of 

 the fun prevailed ; for Anes and Hanes fignified the fountain 

 of light or fire. Titana was fometimes expreffed Tithana, 

 and by the lonians Tithena ; and Tilhena was faid to be the 

 nurfe of the Titans. But Titaea their mother, and Tithena 

 their nurfe, were all of the fame nature, I'/c. altars raifed of 

 foil. Hefiod, in his account of the difperfion of the Titans, 

 and of the feuds which preceded (Thcogon. ver. 676, 5:c.), 

 fays that the Deity at laft interpofed, and put the Titans to 

 flight, and condemned them to refide in Tartarus at the ex- 

 tremities of the earth ; but Mr. Bryant obferves, that he has 

 confounded the hiftory by fuppofing the giants and Titans to 

 have been different perfons. The fons of Chus, he fays, 

 •were the aggreffors in thofe afts of rebelhon defcribed by 

 the poets as the vv'ar of the giants, who were alfo reprefented 

 under the charafter of the Titanians. The fiftions of the 

 poets with regard to the banifhment of the Titans after 

 their war againfl heaven, took their rife from this true 

 hiftory. A large body of Titanians, after the difperfion, 

 fettled in Mauritania, upon the Atlantic ocean, which is the 

 region flyled Tartarus, and reprefented as the realms of 

 night, becaufe it was fituated in refpedl fo Greece towards 

 the regions of the fetting fun. The term ^o'a;, by which 

 it was expreffed, fignified both the well and darknefs ; as 

 did alio Ereb, ^"ly, whence Erebus, which was alfo 

 another name for Tartarus, to which the poets condemned 

 the Titans and giants. The firfl war of the Titans, accord- 



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ing to this ir.^-enious writer, confiflcd in afts of apo/lasy 

 and rebellion againll heaven : and this refers to that part of 

 the hiflory of the fons of Chus, which reprefents them as 

 building a miglity city in the region, wliich they liad 

 ufurped, and crefting a lofty tower, to prevent their being 

 fcattered abroad : but there was another war in vviiich they 

 were engaged with men, which happened in coiifecjuence of 

 the difperfion. This was no other than the war mentioned 

 by Mofes, which was carried on by four kings of tlie family 

 of Shcni, againll tiic fons of Ham and Chus, to avenge 

 themfelves of thefe enemies by whom they had been greatly 

 aggrieved. See Bryant's Analyfis of Ancient Mythology, 

 vol. iii. p. 48, S:c. p. 71, &c. 



The word Titan is alfo ufed by the poets for the fun ; 

 in which cafe it is likewife Celtic, though from another 

 root, being formed from //, houfe or habitation, and tan, f re. 



Hefycliius obferves, that Titan is likewife ufed for fodo- 

 mite. He adds, that it is alfo one of the names of auti- 

 chriil ; in which fenfe it mufl be written Teilan, in Greek, 

 to contain the numeral letters of 666, which in the Apo- 

 calypfe, xiii. iS. is the number of the beall. 



TiTANUS, in ylncient Geography, a town of Afia Mi- 

 nor, on the coaft of the .lEolide, on the banks of a river of 

 the fame name. 



TITARESSUS, a town of Afia, in Leffer Armenia, in 

 tlie country named Melitane. Ptol. 



TITARESUS, or TiTARESsus, a river of Theflaly, 

 mentioned by Homer, which had its fourcc in mount Ti- 

 tarus. 



TITATY, hi Geography, a town of Bengal ; ^^ miles 

 N. of Dinagepour. 



TITCHFIELD, a fmall market-town in the hundred 

 of the fame name, in the Portfdown divifion of the county 

 of Hants, England ; is fituated near the Titchfie'd river, 

 3 miles W. from Fareham, and 78 miles SiW. from London. 

 It is inhabited by many refpeftable families. The church,, 

 which is the only objedl of particular notice, is a fpacious 

 edifice, of the workman fhip of different ages -^ the N. fide 

 is faid to have been built by Wilham of Wykeham ; but the 

 S. fide is more ancient. In the S. chancel is an interefling 

 monument to the memory of fir Thomas Wriothefley, firfl 

 earl of Southampton, Jane his lady, and Henry their fon, 

 the fecond earl ; all of whom are reprefented by effigies on 

 the tomb. Four annual fairs are held in Titchfield ; and a 

 weekly market on Saturdays. The population of the parifh, 

 under the aft of 18 11, was returned as 3227, the number of 

 houfes at 553. 



At a fhort diflance from the town, on the N., are the ruins 

 of Titchfield Houfe, the ancient feat of the Wriothefleys. 

 It was erefted, by the firfl earl of Southampton, on the fcite, 

 and with the materials of an abbey, founded for Premonftra- 

 tenfian canons, by bifliop Peter de Rupibus, in the year 

 1 23 1. The annual revenues of this eilabhlhment, at the 

 period of the diffolution, amounted, according to Dugdale, 

 to 246/. lbs. id.; but according to Speed, to 280/. igs. ^\d. 

 Its poffeffions were then granted by Henry VIII. to his 

 favourite fecretary, Wriothefley, who built here, Leland 

 reports, " a righte flatelie houfe embattled, and having a 

 goodlie gate, and a condufte caftelid in the middle of the 

 court of it, in the very fame place wlier the late monaftelie 

 floode." This building is now in a very dilapidated flate : 

 the entrance gateway is the principal part left ftanding ; fix- 

 teen rooms having been recently pulled down for the fake 

 of the materials. The eflate is the property of John Delm^, 

 efq. of Cam's Hall. In Titchfield Houfe, Charles I. was 

 concealed after his efcape from Hampton Court in 1647, 

 and previous to his refigning himfelf to colonel Hammond,, 

 jj Z 2 who. 



