THREADFISH, CouuLER-Ftsit, or SuNnsn. A well-known fish (Alcctis ciliaris) allied to the pompanos, of both coasts of tropical America, where it has some commercial importance. It is fine mimic, thus resembling the mocking bird, to which it is nearly related. Its nest is placed in a low bush or on a brush heap, and the eggs are profusely peppered with brown specks. See Plate of EGGS OF AMERICAN SONG BIRDS. Con sult Cones, Birds of the Colorado Valley (Wash ington, 187S).
THRAS'YBUfLITS (Lat., from Gk. OpacripouRoc, Thrasyboulos (?-n.c. 390). An Athenian gen eral and a prominent member of the democratic party at Athens during the last years of the Peloponnesian War. In company with Thrasyl lus at Samos, in B.C. 41l, he vigorously opposed the establishment of the Four Hundred, and was instrumental in securing the recall of Alcibiades from exile. In the same year he, with Thrasyllus, defeated the Peloponnesian ad miral Mindarus at Cynossema, and in B.C. 407, in command of a fleet of thirty vessels, he compelled the submission of the revolted cities in Thrace. Be held a subordinate command in the battle of Arginuste (n.c. 406), and afterwards concurred
with Theramenes in the accusation of the generals therein engaged. Being banished by the Thirty Tyrants (n.c. 404), he went to reside at Thebes, where he planned the overthrow of the Thirty and the reestablishment of the democracy. With a hundred men, refugees like himself, he seized the deserted fort of Rhyle, and, being here joine-d by others, advanced on the Piraeus itself. In the battle that ensued the Thirty were worsted, and, as a result, the democratic form of government was soon reestablished at Athens. In B.C. 395 Thrasybulus commanded a force sent to assist Thebes against the Spartans. In B.C. 391 he was dispatched, in command of forty triremes, to the assistance of Rhodes, but, first sailing to the Hellespont, succeeded in extending the alliances of Athens in those regions. When his fleet reached Pamphylia he was slain by night in his tent by the people of Aspendus, in consequence of some misdeeds committed by his soldiers.