Thymbra
- a city in Troas, with a temple of Apollo, Plin. 5, 30, 33, § 126 (dub.; al. Cambre); Stat. S. 4, 7, 22.—Hence,
- A Thym-braeus, i, m., the Thymbraean, an epithet of Apollo, Verg. A. 3, 85; cf. Macr. S. 1, 17, and Fest. p. 356 Müll.—
- B thymbrae-um, i, n., another name for the sisymbrium silvestre, Plin. 20, 22, 91, § 247.
THYMBRA(Θύμβρηor Θύμβρα), a town of Troas, in the vicinity of Ilium. (Hom. Il. 10.430; Steph. B. s. v.;Plin. Nat. 5.33.) Strabo (13. p. 598) speaks of it only as a plain traversed by the river Thymbrius. The valley of Thymbra and the hill in it, called Callicolone (Hom. Il. 20.53, 151; Strab. l. c.), are said still to retain their ancient names. (Prokesch, Denkwürdigkeiten, 1. p. 145, foll.) The town of Thymbra must have perished at an early period; but its name remained celebrated in religion, for Apollo, who had had a temple at Thymbra, is frequently called Thymbraeus (Θυμβραῖος; Verg. A. 3.85; Eurip. Rhésus, 224; Steph. B. s. v. Θύμβρα).
(Θύμβρη). (1) A city of the Troad, north of Ilium Vetus, with a celebrated temple of Apollo, who derived from this place the epithet Thymbraeus.
(2) A wooded district in Phrygia, no doubt connected with Thymbrium.