) The oracle
connected
with his tomb lost its Simon (Tzetz.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
C.
548.
(Paus.
ii.
32.
§ 4; CALLON ; soothsayers in all antiquity.
He was blind from
Dipoenus. ) They belong to the latter part of the his seventh year, but lived to a very old age. The
80-called Daedalian period. [DAEDALUS. ] The cause of his blindness was believed to have been
only work of theirs, of which we have any notice, the fact that he had revealed to men things which,
is the celebrated statue of Apollo at Delos, men according to the will of the gods, they ought not to
tioned by Pausanias (ix. 32. § 1. s. 4: where the know, or that he had seen Athena while she was
corrupt word Alovúo ou is very difficult to correct : bathing, on which occasion the goddess is said to
Müller has suggested xpvooù: see Schubart and have blinded him, by sprinkling water into his face.
Walz's note), and more fully described by Plutarch Chariclo prayed to Athena to restore his sight to
(de aus. 14, p. 1136, a. ) The right hand of the him, but as the goddess was unable to do this, she
statue held a bow, and in the left hand were the conferred upon him the power to understand the
Graces, each holding an instrument of music, one voices of the birds, and gave him a staff, with the
the lyre, another the flute, and the third the pan- help of which he could walk as safely as if he had
pipes (o úpıyš). The tradition which ascribed the his eyesight. (Apollod. ii. 6. $7; Callim. Lav.
## p. 987 (#1003) ###########################################
TELAMON.
987
TELCHINES.
3
CER.
Pall. 75, &c. , with Spanheim's note. ) Another tra- was one of the Calydonian hunters and of the Ar-
dition accounts for his blindness in the following gonauts. (A pollod. i. 8. & 2, 9. & 16, iii. 12. $ 7;
manner. Once, when on Mount Cythaeron (others Paus. i. 42. § 4 ; Hygin. Fab. 173 ; Tzetz. ad
say Cyllene), he saw a male and a female serpent Lycoph. 175. ) Miltiades traced his pedigree to
together ; he struck at them with his staff, and as Telamon. (Paus. ii. 29 § 4. ) After Telamon and
he happened to kill the female, be himself was Peleus had killed their step-brother Phocus (Puo-
metamorphosed into a woman. Seven years later cus), they were expelled by Aeacus from Aegina,
he again saw two serpents, and now killing the and Telamon went to Cychreus in Salamis, who
male, he again became a man. It was for this bequeathed to him his kingdom. (Apollod. 1. c. ;
reason that Zeus and Hera, when they were dis Paus. ii. 29. &$ 2, 7. ) He is said to have been a
puting as to whether a man or a woman had great friend of Heracles (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod.
more enjoyments, referred the matter to Teire- i. 1289 ; Theocrit. Id. xiii. 38), and to have joined
sias, who could judge of both, and declared in him in his expedition against Laomedon of 'Troy,
favour of the assertion of Zeus that women had which city he was the first to enter. He there
more enjnyments. Hera, indignant at the answer, erected to Heracles Callinicus or Alexicacus, an
blinded him, but Zeus gave him the power of pro-altar. Heracles, in return, gave to him Theaneira
phecy, and granted him a liſe which was to last for or Hesione, a daughter of Laomedon, by whom he
seven or nine generations. (Apollod. l. c. ; Hygin. became the father of Teucer and Trambelus. (A pol-
Fub. 75 ; Ov. Mich. iii. 320, &c. ; Tzetz. ad Ly- lod. ii. 6. § 4, iii. 10. § 8, 12. $ 7 ; Tzetz. ad Lya
coph. 602 ; Pind. Nem. i. 91. ) In the war of the coph. 468 ; Diod. iv. 32. ) On this expedition
Seven against Thebes, he declared that Thebes Telamon and Heracles also fought against the
should be victorious, if Menoeceus would sacrifice Meropes in Cos, on account of Chalciope, the beau-
himself (Apollod. loc. ; Hygin. Fab. 68); and tiful daughter of Eurypylus, the king of the Me-
during the war of the Epigoni, when the Thebans ropes, and against the giant Alcioneus, on the
had been defeated, he advised them to commence isthmus of Corinth. (Pind. N'em. iv. 40, &c. , with
negotiations of peace, and to avail themselves of the Schol. ) He also accompanied Heracles on his
the opportunity that would thus be afforded them, expedition against the Amazons, and slew Me-
to take to flight. He himself fled with them (or, lanippe. (Pind. Nem. iii. 65, with the Schol. )
according to others, he was carried to Delphi as a Respecting his two sons, see AJAX and Teu-
captive), but on his way he drank from the well
(L. S. )
of Tilphossa and died. (Apollod. iii. 7. $ 3 ; Paus. TELCHIN(Texív), a son of Europs, and father
ix. 33. $ 1; Diod. iv. 66. ) His daughter Manto of Apis, was king of Sicyon (Paus. ii. 5, § 5).
(or Daphne) was sent by the victorious Argives to According to Apollodorus (ii. 1. § 1, &c. ) Telchin,
Delphi, as a present to A pollo. (Diod. l. c. ; Apolo in conjunction with Thelsion, slew Apis, and was
lod. iii. 7. & 4. ) Another daughter of his is called killed in consequence by Argus Panoptes. (L. S. )
Historis. aus. ix. 11. & 2. ) Even in the lower TELCHI'N ES (Teixives), a family, a class of
world Teiresias was believed to retain the powers people, or a tribe, said to have been descended from
of perception, while the souls of other mortals were Thalassa or Poseidon. (Diod. v. 55; Nonn. Dionys.
mere shades, and there also he continued to use his xiv. 40. ) It is probably owing to this story about
golden staff. (Hom. Od. x. 492, xi. 190, &c. ; Ly- their origin, that Eustathius (ad Hom. p. 771)
coph. Cass. 682 ; Cic. de Div. i. 40 ; Paus. ix. 33. describes them as marine beings without feet, the
§ 1. ) His tomb was shown in the neighbourhood place of the bands being occupied by fins, though
of the Tilphusian well near Thebes (Paus. ix. 18. in the same page he also states that originally
$ 3, 33. § 1, vii. 3. § 1), but also in Macedonia they were the dogs of Actaeon, who were changed
(Plin. H. N. xxxvii. 10); and the place near into men. The following are mentioned as the
Thebes where he had observed the birds (oiwvo- names of individual Telchines : - Mylas (Hesych.
OKOTLOV) was pointed out as a remarkable spot even s. v. ), Atabyrius (Steph. Byz. s. v. 'ATábupov),
in later times. (Paus. ix. 16. § 1 ; Soph. Oed. Tyr. Antaeus, Megalesius, Hormenus, Lycus, Nicon,
493.
) The oracle connected with his tomb lost its Simon (Tzetz. Chil. vii. 124, &c. , xii. 835; Zenob.
power and became silent at the time of the Orcho- Cent. 5, par. 41), Chryson, Argyron, Chalcon
menian plague. (Plut. De Orac. Defect. ) He(Eustath. ad Hon. p. 772 ; Diod. v. 55). The
was represented by Polygnotus in the Lesche at accounts of the Telchines are very few and scanty,
Delphi. (Paus. x. 29. $ 2. ) The blind seer Tei- and in them they appear in three different relations:
resias acts so prominent a part in the mythical 1. As cultivators of the soil and ministers of the
history of Greece that there is scarcely any event gods; and as such they came from Crete to
with which he is not connected in some way or Cyprus and from thence to Rhodes, or they
other, and this introduction of the seer in so proceeded from Rhodes to Crete and Boeotia.
many occurrences separated by long intervals of Rhodes, and in it the three towns of Cameirus,
time, was facilitated by the belief in his long lalysos, and Lindos (whence the Telchines
life.
[L. S. ) are called lalysii, Ov. Mlet. vii. 365), which was
TEʻLAMON (Tehauóv). 1. A surname of their principal seat and was named after them
Atlas, describing him as the sufferer or bearer of Textvis (Sicyon also was called Telchinia, Eustath.
heaven, from Tadw. (Serv. ad Aen. i. 741, iv. ad Hom. p. 291), was abandoned by them, because
246. )
they foresaw that the island would be inundated,
2. A son of Aeacus and Enders, and a brother and thence they scattered in different directions:
of Peleus. He emigrated from Aegina to Salamis, Lycus went to Lycia, where he built the temple of
and was first married to Glauce, a daughter of the Lycian Apollo. This god had been wor-
Cenchreus (Diod. iv. 72), and afterwards to Peri- shipped by them at Lindos ('ATÓMW Tea xivios),
boea or Eriboea, a daughter of Alcathous, by whom and Hera at Ialysos and Cameiros ("Hpa tenxi-
he became the father of Ajax. (Pind. Isthm. vi. vía); and Athena at Teumesgls in Bocotia bore
65; Apollod. ii. 12. $ 6; comp. AJAX. ) IIe I the surname of Telchinia. Nymphs also are
.
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988
TELECLEIDES.
TELEGONUS.
called after them Telchiniae. Poseidon was in- , several other chronological allusions in the extant
trusted to them by Rhea, and they in conjunction fragments, which are fully discussed by Meineke.
with Capheira, a daughter of Oceanus, brought him (Meineke, Frug. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 87-90,
up. (Diod. I. c. ; Strab. xiv. p. 653 ; Paus. ix. vol. i. pp. 361-379,
Editio Minor, PP.
19. $ 1. ) Rhea, Apollo and Zeus, however, are 130—138 ; Bergk, Relig. Com. Att. Ant. pp.
also described as hostile to the Telchines (Schol. 327–331. )
[P. S. )
ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 1141), for Apollo is said to TE'LECLES (Tnexañis), was one of the am-
have assumed the shape of a wolf and to have thus bassadors sent by the Achaeans to Rome, in B. c.
destroyed the Telchines (Serv. ad Aen. iv. 377; 160, to solicit the restoration of the remnant of the
comp. Eustath. ad Hom. p. 771), and Zeus is said 1000 exiles, who had been taken by the Romans
to have caused their destruction by an inundation to Italy, in B. c. 167, after the conquest of Mace-
(Ov. Met. vii. 367). 2. As sorcerers and envious donia. Telecles and his colleague Xenon, were
daemons (Suid. s. v. Báokavou val gontes ; Strab. especially enjoined to intercede on behalf of Poly-
loc. ; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 941, 1391. ) Their bius and Stratius, and to use towards the Roman
very eyes and aspect are said to have been destruc- senate no language but that of supplication. Their
tive (Ov. l. c. ; Tzetz. Chil. xii. 014). They had prayer was refused, and, in B. c. 155, Telecles and
it in their power to bring on hail, rain, and snow, Xenon were sent again to Rome on the same mis-
and to assume any form they pleased (Diod. l. c. ); sion. On this occasion the senate was more fa-
they further mixed Stygian water with sulphur, vourable to them, and there would have been a
in order thereby to destroy animals and plants majority for granting their request, had it not been
(Strab. xiv. p. 653). 3. As artists, for they are for the manoeuvring of A. Postumius (the pre-
said to have invented useful arts and institutions tor who presided) in putting the question. (Polyb.
and to have made images of the gods. They xxxii. 7, xxxiii. 1. ) In the latter of these pas-
worked in brass and iron, made the sickle of Cronos sages Polybius calls Telecles tòx Aireátny, but
and the trident of Poseidon. (Diod. and Strab. the conjectural substitution of Teyestry is highly
l. c. ; Callim. Hymn. in Del. 31. ) This last feature plausible.
(E. E. )
in the character of the Telchines seems to have TEʼLECLES (Tyleriais), artist. [THEODORUS).
been the reason of their being put together with TELECLUS (Týdekhos), king of Sparta, 8th
the Idaean Dactyls, and Strabo (x. p. 472) even of the Agids, and son of Archelaus. In his reign
states that those of the nine Rhodian Telchines who the Spartans subdued the Achaean towns of Amy-
accompanied Rhea to Crete, and there brought up clae, Pharis, and Geranthrae. Not long after
the infant Zeus, were called Curetes. (Comp. these successes Teleclus was slain by the Messe-
Höck, Creta, i. p. 345, &c. ; Welcker, Die Aeschyl. nians, in a teniple of Artemis Limnatis, on the
Trilogie, p. 182, &c. ; Lobeck, Aglaopham. p. 1182, borders. According to the Spartan account, he
&c. )
[L. S. ] had gone thither to offer sacrifice, with a company
TELEBOAS (TneGóas. ) 1. A grandson of of maidens, and fell in an attempt to rescue them
Lelex, a son of Pterelaus and brother of Taphius. from the violence of the Messenians. The Messe-
(Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1473 ; Schol. ad Apollon. nian statement, however, was, that he had trea-
Rhod. i. 747. ) His descendants, the Teleboans, cherously brought with him a body of Spartan
were believed to have settled in Acarnania. (Strab. youths, disguised as maidens, and with daggers
vii. p. 322, x. p. 459. )
hidden under their dress, for the purpose of mur-
2. A son of Lycaon in Arcadia.
Dipoenus. ) They belong to the latter part of the his seventh year, but lived to a very old age. The
80-called Daedalian period. [DAEDALUS. ] The cause of his blindness was believed to have been
only work of theirs, of which we have any notice, the fact that he had revealed to men things which,
is the celebrated statue of Apollo at Delos, men according to the will of the gods, they ought not to
tioned by Pausanias (ix. 32. § 1. s. 4: where the know, or that he had seen Athena while she was
corrupt word Alovúo ou is very difficult to correct : bathing, on which occasion the goddess is said to
Müller has suggested xpvooù: see Schubart and have blinded him, by sprinkling water into his face.
Walz's note), and more fully described by Plutarch Chariclo prayed to Athena to restore his sight to
(de aus. 14, p. 1136, a. ) The right hand of the him, but as the goddess was unable to do this, she
statue held a bow, and in the left hand were the conferred upon him the power to understand the
Graces, each holding an instrument of music, one voices of the birds, and gave him a staff, with the
the lyre, another the flute, and the third the pan- help of which he could walk as safely as if he had
pipes (o úpıyš). The tradition which ascribed the his eyesight. (Apollod. ii. 6. $7; Callim. Lav.
## p. 987 (#1003) ###########################################
TELAMON.
987
TELCHINES.
3
CER.
Pall. 75, &c. , with Spanheim's note. ) Another tra- was one of the Calydonian hunters and of the Ar-
dition accounts for his blindness in the following gonauts. (A pollod. i. 8. & 2, 9. & 16, iii. 12. $ 7;
manner. Once, when on Mount Cythaeron (others Paus. i. 42. § 4 ; Hygin. Fab. 173 ; Tzetz. ad
say Cyllene), he saw a male and a female serpent Lycoph. 175. ) Miltiades traced his pedigree to
together ; he struck at them with his staff, and as Telamon. (Paus. ii. 29 § 4. ) After Telamon and
he happened to kill the female, be himself was Peleus had killed their step-brother Phocus (Puo-
metamorphosed into a woman. Seven years later cus), they were expelled by Aeacus from Aegina,
he again saw two serpents, and now killing the and Telamon went to Cychreus in Salamis, who
male, he again became a man. It was for this bequeathed to him his kingdom. (Apollod. 1. c. ;
reason that Zeus and Hera, when they were dis Paus. ii. 29. &$ 2, 7. ) He is said to have been a
puting as to whether a man or a woman had great friend of Heracles (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod.
more enjoyments, referred the matter to Teire- i. 1289 ; Theocrit. Id. xiii. 38), and to have joined
sias, who could judge of both, and declared in him in his expedition against Laomedon of 'Troy,
favour of the assertion of Zeus that women had which city he was the first to enter. He there
more enjnyments. Hera, indignant at the answer, erected to Heracles Callinicus or Alexicacus, an
blinded him, but Zeus gave him the power of pro-altar. Heracles, in return, gave to him Theaneira
phecy, and granted him a liſe which was to last for or Hesione, a daughter of Laomedon, by whom he
seven or nine generations. (Apollod. l. c. ; Hygin. became the father of Teucer and Trambelus. (A pol-
Fub. 75 ; Ov. Mich. iii. 320, &c. ; Tzetz. ad Ly- lod. ii. 6. § 4, iii. 10. § 8, 12. $ 7 ; Tzetz. ad Lya
coph. 602 ; Pind. Nem. i. 91. ) In the war of the coph. 468 ; Diod. iv. 32. ) On this expedition
Seven against Thebes, he declared that Thebes Telamon and Heracles also fought against the
should be victorious, if Menoeceus would sacrifice Meropes in Cos, on account of Chalciope, the beau-
himself (Apollod. loc. ; Hygin. Fab. 68); and tiful daughter of Eurypylus, the king of the Me-
during the war of the Epigoni, when the Thebans ropes, and against the giant Alcioneus, on the
had been defeated, he advised them to commence isthmus of Corinth. (Pind. N'em. iv. 40, &c. , with
negotiations of peace, and to avail themselves of the Schol. ) He also accompanied Heracles on his
the opportunity that would thus be afforded them, expedition against the Amazons, and slew Me-
to take to flight. He himself fled with them (or, lanippe. (Pind. Nem. iii. 65, with the Schol. )
according to others, he was carried to Delphi as a Respecting his two sons, see AJAX and Teu-
captive), but on his way he drank from the well
(L. S. )
of Tilphossa and died. (Apollod. iii. 7. $ 3 ; Paus. TELCHIN(Texív), a son of Europs, and father
ix. 33. $ 1; Diod. iv. 66. ) His daughter Manto of Apis, was king of Sicyon (Paus. ii. 5, § 5).
(or Daphne) was sent by the victorious Argives to According to Apollodorus (ii. 1. § 1, &c. ) Telchin,
Delphi, as a present to A pollo. (Diod. l. c. ; Apolo in conjunction with Thelsion, slew Apis, and was
lod. iii. 7. & 4. ) Another daughter of his is called killed in consequence by Argus Panoptes. (L. S. )
Historis. aus. ix. 11. & 2. ) Even in the lower TELCHI'N ES (Teixives), a family, a class of
world Teiresias was believed to retain the powers people, or a tribe, said to have been descended from
of perception, while the souls of other mortals were Thalassa or Poseidon. (Diod. v. 55; Nonn. Dionys.
mere shades, and there also he continued to use his xiv. 40. ) It is probably owing to this story about
golden staff. (Hom. Od. x. 492, xi. 190, &c. ; Ly- their origin, that Eustathius (ad Hom. p. 771)
coph. Cass. 682 ; Cic. de Div. i. 40 ; Paus. ix. 33. describes them as marine beings without feet, the
§ 1. ) His tomb was shown in the neighbourhood place of the bands being occupied by fins, though
of the Tilphusian well near Thebes (Paus. ix. 18. in the same page he also states that originally
$ 3, 33. § 1, vii. 3. § 1), but also in Macedonia they were the dogs of Actaeon, who were changed
(Plin. H. N. xxxvii. 10); and the place near into men. The following are mentioned as the
Thebes where he had observed the birds (oiwvo- names of individual Telchines : - Mylas (Hesych.
OKOTLOV) was pointed out as a remarkable spot even s. v. ), Atabyrius (Steph. Byz. s. v. 'ATábupov),
in later times. (Paus. ix. 16. § 1 ; Soph. Oed. Tyr. Antaeus, Megalesius, Hormenus, Lycus, Nicon,
493.
) The oracle connected with his tomb lost its Simon (Tzetz. Chil. vii. 124, &c. , xii. 835; Zenob.
power and became silent at the time of the Orcho- Cent. 5, par. 41), Chryson, Argyron, Chalcon
menian plague. (Plut. De Orac. Defect. ) He(Eustath. ad Hon. p. 772 ; Diod. v. 55). The
was represented by Polygnotus in the Lesche at accounts of the Telchines are very few and scanty,
Delphi. (Paus. x. 29. $ 2. ) The blind seer Tei- and in them they appear in three different relations:
resias acts so prominent a part in the mythical 1. As cultivators of the soil and ministers of the
history of Greece that there is scarcely any event gods; and as such they came from Crete to
with which he is not connected in some way or Cyprus and from thence to Rhodes, or they
other, and this introduction of the seer in so proceeded from Rhodes to Crete and Boeotia.
many occurrences separated by long intervals of Rhodes, and in it the three towns of Cameirus,
time, was facilitated by the belief in his long lalysos, and Lindos (whence the Telchines
life.
[L. S. ) are called lalysii, Ov. Mlet. vii. 365), which was
TEʻLAMON (Tehauóv). 1. A surname of their principal seat and was named after them
Atlas, describing him as the sufferer or bearer of Textvis (Sicyon also was called Telchinia, Eustath.
heaven, from Tadw. (Serv. ad Aen. i. 741, iv. ad Hom. p. 291), was abandoned by them, because
246. )
they foresaw that the island would be inundated,
2. A son of Aeacus and Enders, and a brother and thence they scattered in different directions:
of Peleus. He emigrated from Aegina to Salamis, Lycus went to Lycia, where he built the temple of
and was first married to Glauce, a daughter of the Lycian Apollo. This god had been wor-
Cenchreus (Diod. iv. 72), and afterwards to Peri- shipped by them at Lindos ('ATÓMW Tea xivios),
boea or Eriboea, a daughter of Alcathous, by whom and Hera at Ialysos and Cameiros ("Hpa tenxi-
he became the father of Ajax. (Pind. Isthm. vi. vía); and Athena at Teumesgls in Bocotia bore
65; Apollod. ii. 12. $ 6; comp. AJAX. ) IIe I the surname of Telchinia. Nymphs also are
.
## p. 988 (#1004) ###########################################
988
TELECLEIDES.
TELEGONUS.
called after them Telchiniae. Poseidon was in- , several other chronological allusions in the extant
trusted to them by Rhea, and they in conjunction fragments, which are fully discussed by Meineke.
with Capheira, a daughter of Oceanus, brought him (Meineke, Frug. Com. Graec. vol. i. pp. 87-90,
up. (Diod. I. c. ; Strab. xiv. p. 653 ; Paus. ix. vol. i. pp. 361-379,
Editio Minor, PP.
19. $ 1. ) Rhea, Apollo and Zeus, however, are 130—138 ; Bergk, Relig. Com. Att. Ant. pp.
also described as hostile to the Telchines (Schol. 327–331. )
[P. S. )
ad Apollon. Rhod. i. 1141), for Apollo is said to TE'LECLES (Tnexañis), was one of the am-
have assumed the shape of a wolf and to have thus bassadors sent by the Achaeans to Rome, in B. c.
destroyed the Telchines (Serv. ad Aen. iv. 377; 160, to solicit the restoration of the remnant of the
comp. Eustath. ad Hom. p. 771), and Zeus is said 1000 exiles, who had been taken by the Romans
to have caused their destruction by an inundation to Italy, in B. c. 167, after the conquest of Mace-
(Ov. Met. vii. 367). 2. As sorcerers and envious donia. Telecles and his colleague Xenon, were
daemons (Suid. s. v. Báokavou val gontes ; Strab. especially enjoined to intercede on behalf of Poly-
loc. ; Eustath. ad Hom. pp. 941, 1391. ) Their bius and Stratius, and to use towards the Roman
very eyes and aspect are said to have been destruc- senate no language but that of supplication. Their
tive (Ov. l. c. ; Tzetz. Chil. xii. 014). They had prayer was refused, and, in B. c. 155, Telecles and
it in their power to bring on hail, rain, and snow, Xenon were sent again to Rome on the same mis-
and to assume any form they pleased (Diod. l. c. ); sion. On this occasion the senate was more fa-
they further mixed Stygian water with sulphur, vourable to them, and there would have been a
in order thereby to destroy animals and plants majority for granting their request, had it not been
(Strab. xiv. p. 653). 3. As artists, for they are for the manoeuvring of A. Postumius (the pre-
said to have invented useful arts and institutions tor who presided) in putting the question. (Polyb.
and to have made images of the gods. They xxxii. 7, xxxiii. 1. ) In the latter of these pas-
worked in brass and iron, made the sickle of Cronos sages Polybius calls Telecles tòx Aireátny, but
and the trident of Poseidon. (Diod. and Strab. the conjectural substitution of Teyestry is highly
l. c. ; Callim. Hymn. in Del. 31. ) This last feature plausible.
(E. E. )
in the character of the Telchines seems to have TEʼLECLES (Tyleriais), artist. [THEODORUS).
been the reason of their being put together with TELECLUS (Týdekhos), king of Sparta, 8th
the Idaean Dactyls, and Strabo (x. p. 472) even of the Agids, and son of Archelaus. In his reign
states that those of the nine Rhodian Telchines who the Spartans subdued the Achaean towns of Amy-
accompanied Rhea to Crete, and there brought up clae, Pharis, and Geranthrae. Not long after
the infant Zeus, were called Curetes. (Comp. these successes Teleclus was slain by the Messe-
Höck, Creta, i. p. 345, &c. ; Welcker, Die Aeschyl. nians, in a teniple of Artemis Limnatis, on the
Trilogie, p. 182, &c. ; Lobeck, Aglaopham. p. 1182, borders. According to the Spartan account, he
&c. )
[L. S. ] had gone thither to offer sacrifice, with a company
TELEBOAS (TneGóas. ) 1. A grandson of of maidens, and fell in an attempt to rescue them
Lelex, a son of Pterelaus and brother of Taphius. from the violence of the Messenians. The Messe-
(Eustath. ad Hom. p. 1473 ; Schol. ad Apollon. nian statement, however, was, that he had trea-
Rhod. i. 747. ) His descendants, the Teleboans, cherously brought with him a body of Spartan
were believed to have settled in Acarnania. (Strab. youths, disguised as maidens, and with daggers
vii. p. 322, x. p. 459. )
hidden under their dress, for the purpose of mur-
2. A son of Lycaon in Arcadia.
