I.a very ancient town in Argolis, where Hercules was brought up, Plin. 4, 5, 9, § 17; Stat. Th. 4, 147; Serv. Verg. A. 7, 662.—Hence, Tīrynthĭus , a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tiryns, Tirynthian; and poet., also, of or belonging to Hercules, Herculean: “heros,” i. e. Hercules, Ov. M. 7, 410; id. F. 2, 349; “called also juvenis,” id. ib. 2, 305: “hospes,” id. ib. 1, 547: “Tirynthius heros,” Chromis, the son of Hercules, Stat. Th. 6, 489; and Q. Fabius Maximus (because the Fabii deduced their origin from Hercules), Sil. 8, 218; cf.: “Fabius, Tirynthia proles,” id. 2, 3: “gens, i. e. Fabia,” id. 7, 35: “pubes,” troops of Tiryns, Stat. Th. 11, 45: “tela,” of Hercules, Ov. M. 13, 401: “nox,” i. e. of the conception of Hercules, Stat. S. 4, 6, 17: “aula,” i. e. Herculaneum, id. ib. 2, 2, 109; cf. tecta, i. e. Saguntum, built by Hercules, Sil. 2, 300.—
B. Substt.
1. Tīrynthĭus , i. e. Hercules, Ov. M. 9, 66; 9, 268; 12, 564; id. F. 5, 629; Verg. A. 7, 662; 8, 228.—
2. Tīrynthĭa , ae, f., Alcmena, the mother of Hercules, Ov. M. 6, 112.—
3. Tīrynthĭi , ōrum, m., the people of Tiryns, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 195.
