a. and sb. [f. L. Tyrrhēn-us (see prec.) or Tyrrhēnia Etruria.] a. adj. Of or pertaining to the Tyrrheni or their country; Etruscan, Etrurian. b. sb. One of the Tyrrheni; an Etruscan.
Tyrrhenian Sea, the sea lying between the mainland of Italy and the islands of Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily.
1660. Stanley, Hist. Philos., IX. Pythagoras, i. (1687), 492/1. Suidas saith, That Pythagoras was … by birth a Tyrrhenian.
1711. J. Clarke, trans. Grotius’ Chr. Relig., II. xii. 112, note. [See] Diodorus, Book v, concerning the Tyrrhenians.
1788. Lemprière, Class. Dict., Mezentius, a king of the Tyrrhenians when Æneas came into Italy.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), XVI. 327. Æneas … steered his course for Italy across the Tyrrhenian sea.
1857. Birch, Anc. Pottery (1858), II. 77. The amphora called Tyrrhenian differs only in its general proportion from the two preceding kinds.
