Myth. [L. Tītyrus, name of a shepherd, a. Gr. Τίτυρος, said to be Doric for σάτυρος satyr.] A fictitious monster supposed to be bred between a sheep and a goat.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xxv. (1660), 255. Like as the Tytirus is ingendred between a Sheep and a Buck Gont, as Upton noteth.
1710. W. King, Heathen Gods & Heroes, xxvii. (1722), 134. Several cruel Dæmons, Satyrs, Sileni and Tityri, us’d to accompany him [Bacchus] with Cymbals and huge Exclamations.
1825. Even. Post (N.Y.), 12 Jan., 2/3. Even in 1781, the whole war transferred to his [Jefferson’s] State, when ‘undique uque adeo turbatur agris,’ our revolutionary tityrus is ‘lentns [sic] in umbra,’ at ease and peace in his shade.
[1906. Vinycomb, Fict. & Symb. Creatures in Art, 217. It [Musimon, Tityrus] is also mentioned in Guillim’s ‘Display,’ where it is said to be a bigenerous beast, of unkindly procreation, engendered between a goat and a ram, like the Tityrus, the offspring of a sheep and goat, as noted by Upton.]
