Therapnae

Thĕrapnae (Thĕramnae), ārum, = Θεράπναι, or -ē, ēs, f., = Θεράπνη,

• a small town in Laconia, the birthplace of Helen, Mel. 2, 3, 4; Stat. S. 4, 8, 53.
• —Hence, Thĕ-rapnaeus (Thĕramn-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Therapnae, Therapnaean; in the poets for Laconian, Spartan: rus, Ov. H. 15 (16), 196: marita, i.e. Helen, id. A. A. 3, 49: fratres, i.e. Castor and Pollux, Stat. Th. 7, 793; cf.: membra Therapnaea resolutus gymnade Pollux, id. S. 4, 2, 48: Amyclae, Mart. 9, 104, 5.—And, as the Tarentines were an off-shoot from the Laconians, sometimes also for Tarentine: Galesus, Stat. S. 2, 2, 111.—For the same reason, also for Sabine: sanguine Clausi, Sil. 8, 414.

Therapnae, ārum, f. (Θεράπναι), eine Stadt in Lakonika, südöstl. von Sparta am Eurotas, Geburtsort der Helena, Mela 2, 3, 4, (2. § 41). Stat. silv. 4, 8, 53. – Dav. Therapnaeus, a, um (Θεραπναῖος), a) therapnäisch, auch poet. für spartanisch marita od. nata rure Therapnaeo, Helena, Ov.: sanguis Therapnaeus, des Knaben Hyazinth aus Amyklä, Ov.: Amyclae, spartanisch, weil es neben Sparta lag. Mart. – b) = tarentinisch, Sil. – c) = sabinisch, weil die Sabiner von den Spartanern abstammen sollen, Sil.

Thĕrapnæ, ārum, f. et Thĕrapnē, ēs, f. , Thérapné [ville de Laconie] : Stat. S. 4, 8, 53 ; Mela 2, 41 || Thĕrapnæus, a, um (Θεραπναῖος), de Thérapné, de Laconie, de Sparte : Ov. H. 15, 196 ; Stat. S. 2, 2, 111.

THERAPNAE

THERAPNAE (Θεράπναι: Eth. Θεραπναῖος), a place in the territory of Thebes, between this city and the Asopus. (Eurip. Bacch. 1029; Strab. 9. p. 409; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 2. p. 369.)

Therapnae

(Θεράπναι). (1) A town in Laconia, on the left bank of the Eurotas and a little above Sparta, celebrated in mythology as the birthplace of Castor and Pollux. Menelaüs and Helen were said to be buried here (Pausan. iii. 19, 9).

(2) A town in Boeotia.