_Theod´orick_, king of the Goths, called by the German minnesingers, Diderick of Bern (Verōna). _Theodorick_, or “Alberick of Mortemar,” an exiled nobleman, hermit of Engaddi, and an enthusiast.--Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). =Theodorus= (_Master_), a learned physician, employed by Ponocratês to cure Gargantua of his vicious habits. The doctor accordingly “purged him canonically with Anticyrian hellebore, cleansed from his brain all perverse habits, and made him forget everything he had learned of his other preceptors.”--Rabelais, _Gargantua_, i. 23. Hellebore was made use of to purge the brain, in order to fit it the better for serious study.--Pliny, _Natural History_, xxv. 25; Aulus Gellius, _Attic Nights_, xvii. 15. =Theodo´sius=, the hermit of Cappadocia. He wrote the four gospels in letters of gold (423-529). Theodosius, who of old. Wrote the gospels in letters of gold. Longfellow, _The Golden Legend_ (1851). =Theophilus= (_St._), of Adana, in Cilicia (sixth century). He was driven by slander to sell his soul to the devil, on condition that his character was cleared. The slander was removed, and no tongue wagged against the thin-skinned saint. Theophilus now repented of his bargain, and after a fast of forty days and forty nights, was visited by the Virgin, who bade him confess to the bishop. This he did, received absolution, and died within three days of brain fever.--Jacques de Voragine, _The Golden Legends_ (thirteenth century). This is a very stale trick, told of many a saint. Southey has poetized one of them in his ballad of _St. Basil_, or _The Sinner Saved_ (1829). Elĕēmon sold his soul to the devil on condition of his procuring him Cyra for wife. The devil performed his part of the bargain, but Eleemon called off, and St. Basil gave him absolution. (See SINNER SAVED.) =Theophras´tus of France= (_The_), Jean de la Bruyère, author of _Caractères_ (1646-1696). =Theresa=, the miller’s wife, who adopted and brought up Amīna, the orphan, called “the somnambulist.”--Bellini, _La Sonnambula_ (libretto by Scribe, 1831). _Therēsa_, wife of the count palatine of Padōlia, beloved by Mazeppa. Her father, indignant that a mere page should presume to his daughter’s hand, had Mazeppa bound to a wild horse, and set adrift. The future history of Theresa is not related.--Byron, _Mazeppa_ (1819). Medora [_wife of the Corsair_], Neuha [in _The Island_], Leila [in _The Giaour_], Francesca [in _The Siege of Corinth_], and Theresa, it has been alleged, are but children of one family, with differences resulting only from climate and circumstances.--Finden, _Byron Beauties_. _Theresa_ (_Sister_), with Flora M’Ivor at Carlisle.--Sir W. Scott, _Waverley_ (time, George II.).