Being liberated from the island of Mohāreb, our hero wandered, cold and hungry, into a dwelling, where he saw Laila, the daughter of Okba, the sorcerer. Okba rushed forward with intent to kill him, but Laila interposed, and fell dead by the hand of her own father (bk. x.). Her spirit, in the form of a green bird, now became the guardian angel of “The Destroyer,” and conducted him to the simorg, who directed him the road to Dom-Daniel (bk. xi.), which he reached in time, slew the surviving sorcerers, and was received into heaven (bk. xii.).--Southey, _Thalaba, the Destroyer_ (1797). =Thales´tris=, queen of the Amazons. Any bold, heroic woman. As stout Armi´da [_q.v._], bold Thalestris, And she [_Rhodalind q.v._] that would have been the mistress Of Gondibert. S. Butler, _Hudibras_, i. 2 (1663). =Tha´lia=, the Muse of pastoral song. She is often represented with a crook in her hand. Turn to the gentler melodies which suit Thalia’s harp, or Pan’s Arcadian lute. Campbell, _Pleasures of Hope_, ii. (1790). =Thaliard=, a lord of Antioch.--Shakespeare, _Pericles, Prince of Tyre_ (1608). =Tham´muz=, God of the Syrians, and fifth in order of the hierarchy of hell: (1) Satan, (2) Beëlzebub, (3) Moloch, (4) Chemos, (5) Thammuz (the same as Ado´nis). Thammuz was slain by a wild boar in Mount Lebanon, from whence the river Adonis descends, the water of which, at a certain season of the year, becomes reddened. Addison saw it, and ascribes the redness to a minium washed into the river by the violence of the rain. Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer’s day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, i. 446, etc. (1665). =Thamu´dites= (3 _syl._), people of the tribe of Thamûd. They refused to believe in Mahomet without seeing a miracle. On a grand festival, Jonda, prince of the Thamûdites, told Sâleh, the prophet, that the god which answered by miracle should be acknowledged God by both. Jonda and the Thamûdites first called upon their idols, but received no answer. “Now,” said the prince to Sâleh, “if God will bring a camel big with young from that rock, we will believe.” Scarcely had he spoken, when the rock groaned and shook and opened; and forthwith there came a camel, which there and then cast its young one. Jonda became at once a convert, but the Thamûdites held back. To add to the miracle, the camel went up and down among the people crying, “Ho! every one that thirsteth, let him come, and I will give him milk!” (compare _Isaiah_ lv. 1.).