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eulogium, presented him with a brazen statue. Julian cor¬ 
responded with him as a friend ; and in 362, appointed him 
praefect of Constantinople. His character and eloquence 
induced other emperors to bestow upon him peculiar favours. 
When Jovian issued his edict of toleration, Themistius was 
deputed by the senate to express its loyalty; and on this 
occasion he expatiated with elegance and liberality on the 
rights of conscience, and the independence of the human 
mind. Of his candour and liberality, the following memor¬ 
able instance is recorded by Socrates, Sozomen and other 
ecclesiastical historians. The emperor Valens, who favoured 
the Arian party, treated the Trinitarians with great severity. 
Themistius, disapproving the measures which the emperor 
pursued, addressed him in an eloquent speech, stating that 
the diversity of opinions among Christians was inconsi¬ 
derable, compared with that of the Pagan philosophers; and 
urging upon his attention, that this diversity could not be 
displeasing to God, since it did not prevent men from wor¬ 
shipping him with true piety. By such arguments, Themis¬ 
tius, it is said, prevailed upon the emperor to treat the 
Trinitarians with greater lenity. What an example does 
this Pagan philosopher exhibit even to Christian divines! 
In the year 376, Themistius visited Rome, but though soli¬ 
cited to take up his abode there, he preferred returning to 
Constantinople. It redounds very much to the honour of 
this philosopher, and also to the liberal sentiments of Theo¬ 
dosius the Great, that during his visit to the Western empire, 
the emperor entrusted Themistius, notwithstanding difference 
of religion, with the care and education of his son Arcadius. 
After a long course of civil honours, he withdrew about the 
year 387, at an advanced age from public business; and 
soon after died. His “ Orations,” which were 36, and of 
which 33 are still remaining, are strongly marked with liberal 
characters. The best editions of his Orations are those of 
Petau, Gr. and Lat. Paris, 4to., 1618; and of Hardouin, Gr. 
and Lat. Paris, fob 1684. Fabr. Bib. Grcec. Brucker by 
Enfield. Gibbon. Lardner's Works. 
THEMISTOCLES, an Athenian statesman and com¬ 
mander. See Greece. 
THEMSE'LVES, s. [See They and Self.] These very 
persons: in this sense it is nominative.—Whatsoever evil 
befalleth in that, themselves have made themselves worthy 
to suffer it. Hooker. —The oblique case of they and selves. 
—They open to themselves at length the way. Milton. 
THEN, adv. [than. Gothic; San, Sax.; dan, Dutch.] 
At that time.—Thee, then a boy, within my arms I laid. 
Dry den. —Afterwards; immediately afterwards; soon after¬ 
wards.—If an herb be cut off from the roots in winter, and 
then the earth be trodden down hard, the roots will become 
very big in summer. Bacon. —In that case; in conse¬ 
quence. 
Had not men been fated to be blind, 
Then had our lances pierc’d the treach’rous wood, Dryden. 
Therefore; for this reason. 
If then his providence 
Out of evil seek to bring forth good. Milton. 
At another time: as now and then, at one time and other. 
—Now shaves with level wing the deep, then soars. Mil- 
ton .—One while the master is not aware of what is done, 
and then in other cases it may fall out to be his own act. 
L'Estrange. —That time : it has here the effect of a noun. 
Till then who knew 
The force of those dire arms ? Milton. 
THENAR, in Anatomy. The eminence in the palm of the 
hand, formed by the muscles of the thumb, has been called 
thenar: and some of the muscles have been described under 
the same name. 
The thenar of Riolan and Winslow includes the abductor 
pollicis brevis, and the opponens pollicis. 
THENCE, adv. [contracted, according to Minshew, from 
there hence.'] From that place. 
Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence 
Invoke thy aid. Milton. 
THE 
From that time.—There shall be no more thence an infant 
of days. Isa. —For that reason. 
Not to sit idle with so great a gift 
Useless, and thence ridiculous about him. Milton. 
From thence is a barbarous expression, thence implying 
the same, yet it wants not good authorities. 
From thence; from whom, whose daughter 
His tears proclaim’d his parting with her ; thence 
We have cross’d. , Shakspeare. 
THE'NCEFORTH, adv. From that time. 
Thenceforth this land was tributary made 
T’ambitious Rome. Spenser. 
From thenceforth is a barbarous corruption, though it 
has crept into books where it ought not to be found. 
Avert 
His holy eyes ; resolving^/ww thenceforth 
To leave them to their own polluted ways. Milton. 
THENCEFO'RWARD, adv. On from that time.— 
When he comes to the Lord’s table, every communicant 
professes to repent, and promises to lead a new life thence¬ 
forward. Kettlewell. 
THENCEFRO'M, adv. From that place. Not in use , 
nor proper. —In the space of an hundred years, or there¬ 
about, all the living upon the face of the earth are driven 
thencefrom by the stroke of death. Smith. 
THENEZAY, a small town in the west of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Two Sevres, with 1500 inhabitants, employed 
partly in manufactures, partly in the cultivation of wine ; 14 
miles north-east of Parthenay, and 34 north-east of Niort. 
THENFORD, a parish of England, in Northamptonshire^ 
5j miles north- west-by-west of Brackley. 
TIIENINGEN, a neat village in the south-west of Ger¬ 
many, in Baden, on the Elz, with 1100 inhabitants; 10 
miles north-by-west of Frey burg. 
THENON, a small town in the south of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Dordogne. Population 1400; 6 miles north¬ 
west of Montignac, and 20 east of Perigueux. 
THENSA, among the Romans, a veil or canopy, used in 
the chariots of games; and likewise to cover a seat of state. 
Thensse could not be granted to any but by the express 
allowance of the senate. Hist. Acad. Inscript. 
THEOBALD (Lewis), a professed writer, was the son of 
an eminent attorney at Sittingbourn, in the county of Kent, 
and is here noticed as one of the numerous editors of Shak¬ 
speare. Of his various works, critical, poetical, and dramatic, 
it is needless to give any account, as they have sunk into 
oblivion. He had the misfortune of becoming, to an undue 
degree, the object of Mr. Pope’s contempt and satire, and of 
having the first place assigned him in the Dunciad, though 
he was afterwards superseded by Cibber. His edition of 
Shakspeare was preceded by a work entitled “ Shakspeare 
Restored,” and published in 1726; and also by that of Mr. 
Pope, it is thus characterised by Dr. Johnson: “ Pope 
was succeeded by Theobald, a man of narrow comprehension 
and small acquisitions, with no native and intrinsic splendour 
of genius, with little of the artificial light of learning, but 
zealous for minute accuracy, and not negligent in pursuing 
it. He collated the ancient copies, and rectified many 
errors. A man so anxiously scrupulous might have been ex¬ 
pected to do more; for what little he did was commonly 
right.” Of the tragedy which lie brought on the stage, and 
which is entitled “ The Double Falsehood,” the greater part 
is ascribed by him to Shakspeare; but Dr. Farmer has proved 
that this is a mistake. 
THEOBALD’S, a hamlet of England, in Hertfordshire, 
situated on the New River, noted as the favourite residence of 
James I. who had here a magnificent seat, and gardens, ori¬ 
ginally built by lord treasurer Burleigh; 4 miles west-by¬ 
north of Chipping Barnet. 
THEOBROMA [0ea>v fimyx, Gr., the food of the gods], 
in Botany, a genus of the class polyadelphia, order decan- 
dria, natural order of columniferae, malvaceae. (Juss.) — 
Generic Character. Calyx: perianth five-leaved; leaflets 
lanceolate, 
