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Theodʹomas

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A famous trumpeter at the siege of Thebes.

At every court ther cam loud menstralcye

That never trompëd Joab for to heere,

Ne he Theodomas yit half so cleere

At Thebës, when the citë was in doute.”


Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, 9,592.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Thaumaturgus
Theagenes and Chariclea
Theban Bard or Eagle
Theban Legion
Thebes
Thecla (St.)
Theist, Deist, Atheist, Agnostic
Thelusson Act
Thenot
Theocritus
Theodomas
Theodora (in Orlando Furioso)
Theodorick
Theon’s Tooth
Theosophy
Therapeutæ
Theresa
Thermidorians
Thersites
Theseus
Thespians