a. and sb. Forms: 4–5 Tyren, 5 Tyrene, 6 Tirrene, 6–7 Tyrrhen, 6– Tyrrhene. [ad. L. Tyrrhēnus of or pertaining to the Tyrrhēnī (Gr. Τυρρηνοί) or Etruscans.] = next.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 445. He passede … Hercules his pilers, and com in to þe see Tyren.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), VI. 369. From the occean of Briteyne unto the see Tyrene.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. xii. 54. In Itale strandis at the cost Tyrrhene. Ibid., VIII. viii. 164. Wyth brag of weyr and Tirrene trumpis sovn.
1634. Milton, Comus, 49. Coasting the Tyrrhene shore.
1697. Dryden, Æneid, VIII. 729. The Trojan band, Who wait their leader to the Tyrrhene land.
1736. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict., Mezentius,… a prince of the Tyrrhenes.
1882. ‘Ouida,’ Maremma, I. 147. One of the forgotten kings of the Tyrrhene people.
