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 1216 TOLOUS travelled in Gallia; and it is more probaMe than the tradition that the gold of Tolosa was the j)ro- duee of the plunder of Delphi by Brennus and his men, anion;; whom it is said there were some Tectosages (Justin, xxxii. c. 3) ; for it is very doubtful if any of Brennus' soldiers got back to (Ullia, if we admit that they came from Gallia. Tolosa was in some kind of alliance with Koine (Dion Cass, xxsiv. 97) about b. c. 106 ; but the 'I'eutones and Cimbri at this time had broken into Gallia, and fear or policy induced the Tolosates to ^ide with them. Q. Servilius Caepio (consul b. c. 106) made this a pretext for attacking Tolo.sa, which he took and plundered of its treasures, either iuB. c. 106 or in the following year. This act of sacrilege was supposed to have been punished by the gods, for Caepio was defeated by the Cimbri v.. c. 105, and his army was destroyed. (Liv. Ej^^^- 7; Orosius, V. 15; Gell. iii. 9.) The treasure of Tolosa never reached Kome, and perhaps Caepio himsi-lf laid holil of some of it. However this may he, the " Auruni Tolosanum " became a proverb. All who had touched the consecrated treasure came 10 a miserable end. It seems that there was in- quiry made into the matter at Kome, for Cicero ( De Nat. Deorum, iii. 30) speaks of a " quaestio auri Tolosani." Tiie Tolosani or Tolosates were that division of the Tecto.sages which was nearest to the Aquitani. A place called Fines, between Tolosa and Carcaso, denotes the boundary of the territory of Tolosa in that direction, as this term often indicates a terri- torial limit in the Roman geography of Gallia [Fines] ; and another place named Fines marks the boundary on the north between the Tolosates and the Cadurci. Pliny (iii. 4) mentions Tolosa among the Op- pida Latina of Narbonensis, or those towns which had the Latinitas, and, as Ptolemy (ii. 10. § 9) names it a Colonia, we must suppose that it was made a Colonia Latina. Tolosa maintained its importance under the Empire. Ausoaius (Ort/o Nob. Urh. xii.) describes Tolosa as surrounded by a brick wall of great circuit, and as a populous city, which had sent out inhabitants enough to found four other cities. The name Palladia, which Martial (^Kp. ix. 101), Sidonius AiiolUnaris, and Ausonius give to Tolo.sa appears to refer to the cultivation of the liberal arts in this Gallic city — " Te sibi Palladiae antetulit toga docta Tolosae." (Anson. Parent, iii. 6 ; and Commem. Profess. Burdig. xvii. 7.) [G. L.] TOLOUS, a place of the llergetes in Hispania Tarraconensis. {Itin. Ant. p. 391.) Probably Mon- zon. [T.H.D.] TO'MARUS. [DoDONA, p. 783, b.] TOME'RUS {Tojx-npos, Arrian, hul. 24), a river, or rather torrent of Gedrosia, called Tonberos or Tomberos by Pliny (vi. 23. s. 25. § 93, ed. Sillig.), and Tubero by Mela (iii. 7). According to the dis- tances in Arrian, this river is the Muklow or llinijul. fOMEUS. [Messeni., p. 341, b.] TOMIS or TOMI (TJ^'S Strab. vii. p. 319; Ov. Tr. iii. 9. 33; Ge.igr. Kav. iv. 6, &c.: Td^ai, Ptol. iii. 10. § 8; Tomi, Plin. iv. 11. s. 18; Stat. a. i. 2, 255; li'in. Ant. p. 227, &c.; in Mela, ii. 2, Touioe: we also find the Greek form To/xevs, iSteph. B. s. v.; Arrian, Per. P. Eux. p. 24), a town of Lower Moesia, on the Euxine, and the TOKETAE. capital of the district of Scythia Minor (Sozom. //. Eccl. vii. 25; Hierocl. p. 637). It was situated at a distance of about 300 stadia or 36 miles from Istros or Istropolis (Anon. Per. P. Eux. p. 12; Itin. Ant. p. 227), but according to the Tab. Peut. 40 miles. It was a Milesian colony, and according to the legend the place where Medea cut up her brother's body, or where their father Aeetes got together and buried the pieces (Ov. I. c. ; Apollod. i. 9, 25; llygin. Fab. 13.) The legend is no doubt coimected with the name of the town, which, however, is still better known as the place of banishment of Ovid. Now Tomisvar or Jeni Pan- .gola. [T. II. D.J COIN OF TOMIS OR TOMI. TO'MISA (TSixKra: Eth. TojXKrrivas, Tofj.icrdis, a town of Sophene, in Armenia, was ceded by Lu- cullus to the Cappadocians. (Polyb. xxxiv. 13; Strab. xii. p. 535, xiv. pp. 663, 664; Steph. B. s. v.) TONBEROS. [ToMEiius.] TONICE. [NicoNis Dkojius.] TON OS A, a town of Cappadocia, 50 nnles from ' Sebustia, still called Tonus. {It. Ant. pp. 181, 182, 212.) TONSUS, or TONZUS (jSucros, Zos. ii. 22. § 8 ; cf. Lampr. Elag. 7), the principal tributary of the Ilebrus in Tlnace. It rises in the Haemus : its general course for about 70 miles is almost due E.; it then makes a sudden bend to the 8., and, after a farther southerly course of nearly the same length, falls into the Hebrus,a short distance from Hadriano- polis. Now Tuncza or Toonclja. [J. R.] TOPI'RIS (Plin. iv. 11. s. 18; Toiripis or Totttj- pi'jr, Ptol. iii. 11. § 13), or ToPlRUS (/<. ^»<. p. 321; in p. 331, it is corrupted into Otopisus ; and in It. llier. p. 603, into Epyrus; Tab. Pent.; ToTrcipos, Hierocl. p. 634), a town in the SV. of Thrace, a little N E.from the mouth of the Nebtus,and a short distauee W. of Abdera. In the time of Procopius (B. G. iii. 38) it was the first of the maritime cities of Thrace, and is described as distant 12 days' journey from Byzantium. Very little is known about this jilace. In later times it was called Rhusion ('Poiicrioi', Hierocl. I. c. ; cf. Aposposm. Geo. in Hudson, iv. p. 42 ; and Anna Conm. p. 212), and was the seat of a bishopric. (^Co7ic. Chalctd.) Justinian rebuilt its walls, which had been demolished, and made them stroiigir than bcfoie. (Procop. de Aed. iv. 11.) According to Paul Lucas and lioudoue, the modern Tosbur occupies its site; but Lapie identifies it with Kara-Giuenzi. [J. R.] TOREA'l'AE. [ToRETAE.] TOKECCADAE. [Torktae.] T0T;LTAE {Toperai, Steph B. s. v.; Dionys. Per. 6S2; Plin. vi. 5; jlela, i. 2; Avien. 07-b. Terr. 867) or TOKEA'TAE (Topearai, Strab. xi. p. 495), a tribe of the Maeotae in Asiatic Sarmalia. Ptolemy (v. 9 § 9) mentions a TopiTiKi) axpa in Asiatic fearnuitia; and in another passage (iii. 5. § 25) he