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Tiryns

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An ancient city of Arʹgolis in Greece, famous for its Cyclopean architecture. The “Gallery of Tiryns” is the oldest and noblest structure of the heroic ages. It is mentioned by Homer, and still exists.

 

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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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Tipperary Rifle (A)
Tippling Act (The)
Tippling House
Tipstaff
Tiptoe of Expectation (On the)
Tirer une Dent
Tiresias
Tiring Irons
Tirled
Tironian Sign (The)
Tiryns
Tirynthian Swain
Tit
Tit for Tat
Titan
Titan’s War with Jove (The)
Titania
Tithonus
Titi (Prince)
Titian [Tiziano Vecellio]
Titivate

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