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TYRE (Phoen. and Hebr. ti, -ret = " rock," Assyr. Surru, Egypt. Dara, Early Lat. Sarra), the most famous city of Phoenicia. It is now represented by the petty town of Sur (about 5,000 inhabitants), built round the harbour at the north end of a peninsula, which ...

TYREE, an island of the Inner Hebrides, Argyllshire, Scotland. Pop. (1901), 2192. It is situated fully 2 m. S.W. of Coll, the isle of Gunna lying in the channel between the two islands, and has an extreme length from north-east to southwest of nearly 1 2 m. an ...

APOLLONIUS OF TYRE, a medieval tale supposed to be derived from a lost Greek original. The earliest mention of the story is in the Carmina (Bk. vi. 8, 11. 5-6) of Venantius Fortunatus, in the second half of the 6th century, and the romance may well date from t ...

TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- ), English actor and manager, was born in London, on the I7th of December 1853, the son of Julius Beerbohm, a London merchant of German parentage; his half-brother, Max Beerbohm (b. 1872), became well known as a dramatic criti

... e purchase from James Campbell, Lord Cantire, of the lordship of Cantire, or Kintyre, of which the MacDonnells had been dispossessed in 1600 by Argyll; but his possession was successfully opposed by Lord Lome. He died on the loth of December 1636. Antrim marri ...

... Hcibcrg (Apollonii Pergaei quae Graece 1 88 APOLLONIUS OF RHODES— APOLLONIUS OF TYRE exstant Opera, Leipzig, 1891-1893); (7) T. L. Heath, Apollonius, Treatise on Conic Sections (Cambridge, 1896) ; see also H. G. Zeuthen, Die Lekre von den Kegelschnitten im Alt ...

... olycarp (in his contemporary Acts of Martyrdom) and the Phrygian, Alexander, martyred at Lyons in A.D. 177 (Eus. v. i), who was " not without share of apostolic charisma." The authority attaching to apostles was essentially spiritual in character and in the co ...

... information as to Alexandria and Constantinople, briefly describes Damascus and Tyre, the Nile and the Lipari volcanoes, and refers to the caliph Moawiya I . (A.D. 661-680), whom he pictures as befriending Christians and rescuing the " sudarium " of Christ fro ...

... urite holiday resorts; Knapdale between the Sound of Jura and Loch Fyne; and Kintyre or Cantyre, a long narrow peninsula (which, at the isthmus of Tarbert, is little more than i m. wide), the southernmost point of which is known as the Mull, the nearest part o ...

... to Cassius Maximus, a Phoenician rhetorician (perhaps identical with Maximus of Tyre) , treat of dreams and divination generally ; the fourth — with a reply to his critics — and the appendix are dedicated to his son, also named Artemidorus and an interpreter o ...

... n's Works, xxiv. p. 293 sq.). After the death of Pamphilus Eusebius withdrew to Tyre, and later, while the Diocletian persecution was still raging, went to Egypt, where he seems to have been imprisoned, but soon released. He became bishop of Caesarea between 3 ...

... y Robert Bruce in 1326. The isthmus connecting the districts of Knapdale and Kintyre is little more than one mile wide, and boats used once to be dragged across to the head of West Loch Tarbert, a narrow sea loch nearly ten miles long. A proposal to cut a cana ...

... iddle Period"; The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster, edited by J. W. Mclntyre (18 vols., Boston, 1903) ; Letters of Daniel Webster, edited by C. H. van Tyne (New York, 1902); Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln, comprising his Speeches, Letters, State Pap ...

... market, bakery, &c., in many of the Levant cities, e.g. in Sidon (1102) and in Tyre (1123). The fall of Tyre marks a great advance in development of Venetian trade; the republic had now passed beyond the Adriatic, and had taken an important step towards that ...