] representation of Virtue as being similar to that of
TELE'SIAS, of Athens, a statuary, of unknown Xenophon in the celebrated fable of Prodicus ;
time, mentioned only by Clemens Alexandrinus and there are two or three grammatical references
(Protrept.
TELE'SIAS, of Athens, a statuary, of unknown Xenophon in the celebrated fable of Prodicus ;
time, mentioned only by Clemens Alexandrinus and there are two or three grammatical references
(Protrept.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
Illustr.
wound had been inflicted ; Telephus, in return, p. 84. ) It is also mentioned in the Lexicon of Photius,
pointed out to the Greeks the road which they had in the following terms, 'Epuñs Tetpaképalos : év
io take. (Dict. Cret. ii. 10; Ov. Met. xii. 112, KepaperKG TEAeo apxidov špjov. There are some
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TELESILLA.
;
grounds for thinking that Raoul-Rochette may be TELESILLA (Tencoura) of Argos, a cele
right in his conjecture, that this statue was the celebrated lyric poetess and heroine, of the number of
brated Hermes which stood in the Cerameicus, at the those who were called the Nine Lyric Muss
junction of three roads, which is spoken of by the an- (Antip. Thess. in Anth. Pal. ix. 26), flourished
cient writers both as 'Epuñs tetpákeparos and as about Ol. 67, B. C. 510, in the times of Cleomenes
'Epuñs tpiképalos, and which is an object of some I. and Demaratus, kings of Sparta. (Clinton, F. II.
interest on account of the allusion to it in the Tp. pás. a. , who corrects the errors of Eusebius and Fa-
ans of Aristophanes. It is impossible here to discuss bricius). Plutarch relates the tradition that slice
the question at length; those who wish to pursue it was of noble birth, but was afflicted with a disease,
may consult the following authorities. (Phot. l. c. and concerning the cure of which she consulted an
3. 0. Tpirépaloi; Harpocrat. s. v. Tpirépalos 'Epuños, oracle, and received an answer directing her to
with the note of Valesius ; Hesych. s. v. 'Epuñas serve the Muscs. In obedience to the divine
Tpiképalos ; Etym. Mag. s. v. Tpiképalos ; Aris command, she applicd herself to poetry and music;
toph. Frag. Triphal. No. ll, ed. Bergk, ap. Meineke, and was soon rewarded by restoration to health,
Frag. Com. Gracc. vol. ii. p. 1168, ed. Dindorf, in and by the admiration which the Argive women bu-
Didot's Bibliotheca, p. 510 ; Süvern on the Clouds stowed upon her poetry. In the war of Argos
of Aristophancs, p. 87. ) This Hermes was set up against Sparta, sho obtained the highest renown,
by Procleides or Patrocleides, the friend of Hip- not only by her poetry, but her personal valour
parchus ; and therefore, if Raoul-Rochette be right, for, not content with encouraging her countrymen
Telesarchides must have flourished under the by her lyre and song, she took up arms at the head
Peisistratids, and probably before the murder of of a band of her country women, and greatly con-
Hipparchus in B. c. 514. (R. Rochette, Lettre à tributed to the victory which they gained over the
M. Schorn, pp. 412, 413, 2d ed. ) [P. S. ] Spartans. (Plut. de Mui. Virt. p. 245, d. e. ;
TELESARCHUS (Teleoapxos), a Syro-Mace- Paus. ii. 20. $ 7; Max. Tyr. Diss. xxxvii. 5, vol.
donian officer, who commanded a force of 500 men ii. p. 209, ed. Reiske, Diss. xxi. p. 218, ed Davis ;
sent by Antiochus I. to assist the Greeks in the Suid. s. v. ; comp. Herod. vi. 77). In memory of
defence of Thermopylae against the Gauls under this exploit, her statue was erected in the temple of
Brennus, B. C. 279. "On that occasion he displayed Aphrodite at Argos, with the emblems of a poetess
the utmost zeal and courage, and rendered impor- and a heroine (Paus. l. c. ; Tatian. ad Graec. 52,
tant services to the cause of the confederates, but p. 114, ed. Worth); and Ares was worshipped in
was at length slain while valiantly defending a side that city as a patron deity of women (Lucian.
pass over Mount Oeta, by which the Gauls sought Amor, 30, vol. ii. p. 430); and the prowess of her
to force their passage. (Paus, X. 20. § 5, 22. female associates was commemorated by the annual
§ 1. )
[E. H. B. ) festival called 'Teplotiká, in which the women and
TELESARCHUS (Terécapxos), the author of the men appeared respectively in the attire of the
a work on the early history of Argolis. (Sextus other sex: this festival appears to be the same as
Empir. adv. Math. i. 12 ; Schol. in Eurip. Alc. 2; the 'Evduuátia. (Plut. de Mul. Virt. I. c. ; de Mus. 9,
Schol. in Hom. Il. ii. 690. )
p. 1134, c. ; Clem. Alex. Strom. iv. p. 522, Sylburg;
p
TELE'SIAS (Telegías), a Theban musician, of Polyaen. Strat. viii. 33. ) Müller, however, regards
the time of the later Athenian dithyramb, whose this whole story as having a decidedly fabulous coni-
career is adduced by Plutarch as an instance of the plexion : he explains the so-called statue of Telesilla,
force of early education, whether good or bad. in the temple of Aphrodite, as being a statue of the
(Plut. de Mus. 31, p. 1142, b. c. ) He relates, on goddess, of that well-known type, in which she was
the authority of Aristoxenus, with whom the represented in the act of arming herself; and he
musician was contemporary, that Telesias had been ascribes quite a different origin to the festival of
carefully instructed, when young, in the works of the Hybristica. (Dorier, bk. i. c. 8. $ 6 ; Proleg.
the most distinguished musicians, such as Pindar, zu Mythol. p. 405; see also Grote, History of Greece,
Dionysius of Thebes, Lamprus, and Pratinas, and vol. iv. pp. 432—433. )
the great lyric poets; and that he had become an Our information respecting the poetry of Tele-
excellent Aute-player, and thoroughly acquainted silla is very scanty. Athenaeus (xiv. p. 619, b. )
with the other branches of his art : but that, in states that she composed an ode to Apollo, called
middle life, he was so taken with the dramatic and Pundías, which Bode explains as the Argive name
artificial style of music which then prevailed, that of the Paean, derived from the first words of the
he neglected his old models, and gave himself up strain, čepx' (or tex') & pia aie. (Pollux, ix.
to the study of the productions of Philoxenus and 123 ; Bode, Gesch. d. lyr. Dichtkunst, pt. ii
. p. 119. )
Timotheus, of which he chose the most novel and Pausanias also quotes from her poems in honour of
artificial: but, when he set himself to the work of Apollo and Artemis (iii. 35. § 2, ii. 28. & 2), and
composition, and tried both styles, that of Pindar the statement respecting the children of Niobe,
and that of Philoxenus, he found himself quite quoted from her by Apollodorus (Bibl. iii. 5. § 6),
unable to imitate the latter successfully, so great must have been derived from a similar source. A
was the power of his early training in the better scholiast on Homer (Od. xiii. 289) mentions her
style.
[P. S.
] representation of Virtue as being similar to that of
TELE'SIAS, of Athens, a statuary, of unknown Xenophon in the celebrated fable of Prodicus ;
time, mentioned only by Clemens Alexandrinus and there are two or three grammatical references
(Protrept. p. 18, Sylb. ), who states, on the authority to single words used by her (Ath. xi. p. 467, £. ;
of Philochorus, that he made the statues of Po-Eustath. p. 1207. 14; Poll. ii. 23 ; Hesych. s. v.
seidon and Amphitrite, nine cubits in height, BEATIÁTas). The only complete verses of her
which were worshipped in the island of Tenos. poetry which remain are the following two, which
(Philoch. Fr. 185, ed. Müller, Frug. Hist. in Didots seem to come from a Parthenion, composed for a
Bibliotheca, vol. i.
[P. S. ) chorus of Argive virgins, on the subject of the love
TELE’SICLES (TEAEDIKAñs). [ARCHILOCHUS]. 1 of the river Alpheus for Artemis :
p. 414).
要
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992
TELESPHORUS.
TELESTAS
1
1
H
1
:
“A δ' 'Αρτεμις, ώ κόραι,
Epidaurus Ausius. " (Comp. Müller, Anc. Art and
φεύγοισα τον 'Αλφεόν.
ils Rem. $ 391. )
(L. S. )
The metre is an Ionic a Majore Dimeter Catalectic, the service of Antigonus, the king of Asia, who
TELE'SPHORUS (Telco pópos), a general in
the terminal metre being Trochaic.
was sent by him in B. C. 313, with a fleet of fifty
vo
ships and a considerable army to the Peloponnese,
to oppose the forces of Polysperchon and Cassander,
or, as Hephaestion, who quotes the passage, calls His arms were at first very successful ; he drove
it, an Ionic Hephthemimeral (p. 62, ed. Gaisſord, out the Macedonian garrisons from all the cities of
conip. p. 26), and it confirms the statement of the the peninsula, except Sicyon and Corinth, which
writer on music, appended to Censorinus (c. 9), were held by Polysperchon himself ; but having
that Telesilla went further than Alcman in breaking joined with Medius in an attempt to relieve Oreus,
up the strophes into short verses. (Fulv. Ursin. to which Cassander had laid siege, they were de-
Curm. novem illustr. Femin. Antwerp, 1568, 8vo. feated, with the loss of several ships. (Diod. xix.
pp. 49, foll. ; Wolhus, Poctriurum Fragmenta, 74, 75. ) The following summer (B. C. 312) An-
Hamb. 1734 and 1735, 4to. , with the preliminary tigonus having conferred the chief direction of the
Dissertation of Olearius ; Telesillae Frug. in the war in the Peloponnese upon his nephew Ptolemy,
Program. Acad. Upsal. 1826, 8vo. ; Schneidewin, Telesphorus was so indignant that he shook off his
Delect. Poes. Gracc. p. 374; Bergk, Poet. Lyr. allegiance, and having induced some of his soldiers
Graec. pp. 742, 743 ; Fabric. Bill. Gracc. vol. ii. to follow him, established himself in Elis on his own
p. 157; Bode, Gesch. d. Hellen. Dichtkunst, vol. ii. account, and even plundered the sacred treasures
pt. 2, pp. 118, ſoll. )
[P. S. ] at Olympia. He was, however, soon after, induced
TELESINUS, C. LU'CIUS, consul A. D. 66 to submit to Ptolemy. (Id. ib. 87. ) [E. H. B. ]
with Suetonius Paulinus. He is praised by Phi- TELESTAS or TELESTES (TAéotas, Te-
lostratus as a philosopher, and was, in consequence néotns). 1. A dancer, employed in the tragedies
of his love of philosophy, banished by Domitian. of Aeschylus; of whom Athenaeus (i. p. 22, a. )
(Tac. Ann. xvi. 14 ; Dion Cass. lxiii. 1 ; Philostrat relates that his skill was so great, that, in the
Vit. Apoll. iv. 40, vii. 11, viii. 12. )
representation of the Seven against Thebes, he made
TELESI'NUS, PON’TIUS. (Pontius. ] the actions manifest by his mimetic dancing, no
TELESIPPA (TENEOITTa), a lyric poetess of doubt as leader of the chorus. (Müller, Hist. Lit.
Lesbos, and one of the friends of Sappho. (Suid. ; of Greece, vol. i. p. 314. )
comp. Sappho, p. 703. )
[P. S. 2. Of Selinus, a distinguished poet of the later
TELESIS (TéRegis), of Methymna, an epic Athenian dithyramb, is mentioned by Diodorus
poet, not mentioned by any of the ancient authors, Siculus (xiv. 46) as flourishing at Ol. 95. 3, B. C.
but referred to on the Borghese tablet as the author 398, with Philoxenus, Timotheus, and Polyeidus ;
of a Titanomachia (Weichert, über Apollon. Rhod. and this date is confirmed by the Parian Marble
p. 197; Bode, Gesch. d. Hellen. Dichtkunst, vol. i. (Ep. 66. ), according to which Telestes gained a
p. 396).
[P. S. ] dithyrambic victory in B. C. 401. (Comp. Clinton,
TELESON and MNASITI'MUS (Tenbow, F. H. vol. ii. s. aa. 401, 398). He is also men-
Mvacitiuos), are names belonging to a family of tioned by Plutarch (Alex. 8), who states that
Rhodian artists, with whom we have become Alexander had the dithyrambs of Telestes and
acquainted through the inscriptions recently dis-Philoxenus sent to him in Asia. He is also re-
covered by professor Ross in the Acropolis offerred to by the comic poet Theopompus, in his
Lindos, in Rhodes, from two of which we learn Althaea (Ath. xi. p. 501, f. ; Meineke, Frag. Com.
that Mnasitimus, the son of Teleson, made a bronze Graec. vol. ii. p. 793, where Meineke promises
statue of Onomastus in Lindos, and Mnasitimus some future remarks upon the poet). Aristoxenus
and Teleson together made a bronze statue of wrote a life of him, which is quoted by Apollonius
Callicrates. Ross supposes that the Mnasitimus of Dyscolus (Hist. Mirab. 40, in Westermann's Pa-
both inscriptions was the same person, and that, as radoxographi, p. 113); and Aristratus, the tyrant
the former Teleson was the father, so the latter of Sicyon, erected a monument to his memory,
Teleson was the son, of Mnasitimus, chiefly because, adorned with paintings by Nicomachus. (Plin. H.
in the second inscription, the name of Mnasitimus N. xxxv. 10. 8. 36. $ 22, where the common reading
is put before that of Teleson. (Ross, Inschriften is Telesti, not Telestae ; NICOMACHUS).
von Lindos auf Rhodos, Nog. 5, 6, in the Rhein. The only remains of the poetry of Telestes are
Mus. 1846, vol.
wound had been inflicted ; Telephus, in return, p. 84. ) It is also mentioned in the Lexicon of Photius,
pointed out to the Greeks the road which they had in the following terms, 'Epuñs Tetpaképalos : év
io take. (Dict. Cret. ii. 10; Ov. Met. xii. 112, KepaperKG TEAeo apxidov špjov. There are some
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991
TELESILLA.
;
grounds for thinking that Raoul-Rochette may be TELESILLA (Tencoura) of Argos, a cele
right in his conjecture, that this statue was the celebrated lyric poetess and heroine, of the number of
brated Hermes which stood in the Cerameicus, at the those who were called the Nine Lyric Muss
junction of three roads, which is spoken of by the an- (Antip. Thess. in Anth. Pal. ix. 26), flourished
cient writers both as 'Epuñs tetpákeparos and as about Ol. 67, B. C. 510, in the times of Cleomenes
'Epuñs tpiképalos, and which is an object of some I. and Demaratus, kings of Sparta. (Clinton, F. II.
interest on account of the allusion to it in the Tp. pás. a. , who corrects the errors of Eusebius and Fa-
ans of Aristophanes. It is impossible here to discuss bricius). Plutarch relates the tradition that slice
the question at length; those who wish to pursue it was of noble birth, but was afflicted with a disease,
may consult the following authorities. (Phot. l. c. and concerning the cure of which she consulted an
3. 0. Tpirépaloi; Harpocrat. s. v. Tpirépalos 'Epuños, oracle, and received an answer directing her to
with the note of Valesius ; Hesych. s. v. 'Epuñas serve the Muscs. In obedience to the divine
Tpiképalos ; Etym. Mag. s. v. Tpiképalos ; Aris command, she applicd herself to poetry and music;
toph. Frag. Triphal. No. ll, ed. Bergk, ap. Meineke, and was soon rewarded by restoration to health,
Frag. Com. Gracc. vol. ii. p. 1168, ed. Dindorf, in and by the admiration which the Argive women bu-
Didot's Bibliotheca, p. 510 ; Süvern on the Clouds stowed upon her poetry. In the war of Argos
of Aristophancs, p. 87. ) This Hermes was set up against Sparta, sho obtained the highest renown,
by Procleides or Patrocleides, the friend of Hip- not only by her poetry, but her personal valour
parchus ; and therefore, if Raoul-Rochette be right, for, not content with encouraging her countrymen
Telesarchides must have flourished under the by her lyre and song, she took up arms at the head
Peisistratids, and probably before the murder of of a band of her country women, and greatly con-
Hipparchus in B. c. 514. (R. Rochette, Lettre à tributed to the victory which they gained over the
M. Schorn, pp. 412, 413, 2d ed. ) [P. S. ] Spartans. (Plut. de Mui. Virt. p. 245, d. e. ;
TELESARCHUS (Teleoapxos), a Syro-Mace- Paus. ii. 20. $ 7; Max. Tyr. Diss. xxxvii. 5, vol.
donian officer, who commanded a force of 500 men ii. p. 209, ed. Reiske, Diss. xxi. p. 218, ed Davis ;
sent by Antiochus I. to assist the Greeks in the Suid. s. v. ; comp. Herod. vi. 77). In memory of
defence of Thermopylae against the Gauls under this exploit, her statue was erected in the temple of
Brennus, B. C. 279. "On that occasion he displayed Aphrodite at Argos, with the emblems of a poetess
the utmost zeal and courage, and rendered impor- and a heroine (Paus. l. c. ; Tatian. ad Graec. 52,
tant services to the cause of the confederates, but p. 114, ed. Worth); and Ares was worshipped in
was at length slain while valiantly defending a side that city as a patron deity of women (Lucian.
pass over Mount Oeta, by which the Gauls sought Amor, 30, vol. ii. p. 430); and the prowess of her
to force their passage. (Paus, X. 20. § 5, 22. female associates was commemorated by the annual
§ 1. )
[E. H. B. ) festival called 'Teplotiká, in which the women and
TELESARCHUS (Terécapxos), the author of the men appeared respectively in the attire of the
a work on the early history of Argolis. (Sextus other sex: this festival appears to be the same as
Empir. adv. Math. i. 12 ; Schol. in Eurip. Alc. 2; the 'Evduuátia. (Plut. de Mul. Virt. I. c. ; de Mus. 9,
Schol. in Hom. Il. ii. 690. )
p. 1134, c. ; Clem. Alex. Strom. iv. p. 522, Sylburg;
p
TELE'SIAS (Telegías), a Theban musician, of Polyaen. Strat. viii. 33. ) Müller, however, regards
the time of the later Athenian dithyramb, whose this whole story as having a decidedly fabulous coni-
career is adduced by Plutarch as an instance of the plexion : he explains the so-called statue of Telesilla,
force of early education, whether good or bad. in the temple of Aphrodite, as being a statue of the
(Plut. de Mus. 31, p. 1142, b. c. ) He relates, on goddess, of that well-known type, in which she was
the authority of Aristoxenus, with whom the represented in the act of arming herself; and he
musician was contemporary, that Telesias had been ascribes quite a different origin to the festival of
carefully instructed, when young, in the works of the Hybristica. (Dorier, bk. i. c. 8. $ 6 ; Proleg.
the most distinguished musicians, such as Pindar, zu Mythol. p. 405; see also Grote, History of Greece,
Dionysius of Thebes, Lamprus, and Pratinas, and vol. iv. pp. 432—433. )
the great lyric poets; and that he had become an Our information respecting the poetry of Tele-
excellent Aute-player, and thoroughly acquainted silla is very scanty. Athenaeus (xiv. p. 619, b. )
with the other branches of his art : but that, in states that she composed an ode to Apollo, called
middle life, he was so taken with the dramatic and Pundías, which Bode explains as the Argive name
artificial style of music which then prevailed, that of the Paean, derived from the first words of the
he neglected his old models, and gave himself up strain, čepx' (or tex') & pia aie. (Pollux, ix.
to the study of the productions of Philoxenus and 123 ; Bode, Gesch. d. lyr. Dichtkunst, pt. ii
. p. 119. )
Timotheus, of which he chose the most novel and Pausanias also quotes from her poems in honour of
artificial: but, when he set himself to the work of Apollo and Artemis (iii. 35. § 2, ii. 28. & 2), and
composition, and tried both styles, that of Pindar the statement respecting the children of Niobe,
and that of Philoxenus, he found himself quite quoted from her by Apollodorus (Bibl. iii. 5. § 6),
unable to imitate the latter successfully, so great must have been derived from a similar source. A
was the power of his early training in the better scholiast on Homer (Od. xiii. 289) mentions her
style.
[P. S.
] representation of Virtue as being similar to that of
TELE'SIAS, of Athens, a statuary, of unknown Xenophon in the celebrated fable of Prodicus ;
time, mentioned only by Clemens Alexandrinus and there are two or three grammatical references
(Protrept. p. 18, Sylb. ), who states, on the authority to single words used by her (Ath. xi. p. 467, £. ;
of Philochorus, that he made the statues of Po-Eustath. p. 1207. 14; Poll. ii. 23 ; Hesych. s. v.
seidon and Amphitrite, nine cubits in height, BEATIÁTas). The only complete verses of her
which were worshipped in the island of Tenos. poetry which remain are the following two, which
(Philoch. Fr. 185, ed. Müller, Frug. Hist. in Didots seem to come from a Parthenion, composed for a
Bibliotheca, vol. i.
[P. S. ) chorus of Argive virgins, on the subject of the love
TELE’SICLES (TEAEDIKAñs). [ARCHILOCHUS]. 1 of the river Alpheus for Artemis :
p. 414).
要
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992
TELESPHORUS.
TELESTAS
1
1
H
1
:
“A δ' 'Αρτεμις, ώ κόραι,
Epidaurus Ausius. " (Comp. Müller, Anc. Art and
φεύγοισα τον 'Αλφεόν.
ils Rem. $ 391. )
(L. S. )
The metre is an Ionic a Majore Dimeter Catalectic, the service of Antigonus, the king of Asia, who
TELE'SPHORUS (Telco pópos), a general in
the terminal metre being Trochaic.
was sent by him in B. C. 313, with a fleet of fifty
vo
ships and a considerable army to the Peloponnese,
to oppose the forces of Polysperchon and Cassander,
or, as Hephaestion, who quotes the passage, calls His arms were at first very successful ; he drove
it, an Ionic Hephthemimeral (p. 62, ed. Gaisſord, out the Macedonian garrisons from all the cities of
conip. p. 26), and it confirms the statement of the the peninsula, except Sicyon and Corinth, which
writer on music, appended to Censorinus (c. 9), were held by Polysperchon himself ; but having
that Telesilla went further than Alcman in breaking joined with Medius in an attempt to relieve Oreus,
up the strophes into short verses. (Fulv. Ursin. to which Cassander had laid siege, they were de-
Curm. novem illustr. Femin. Antwerp, 1568, 8vo. feated, with the loss of several ships. (Diod. xix.
pp. 49, foll. ; Wolhus, Poctriurum Fragmenta, 74, 75. ) The following summer (B. C. 312) An-
Hamb. 1734 and 1735, 4to. , with the preliminary tigonus having conferred the chief direction of the
Dissertation of Olearius ; Telesillae Frug. in the war in the Peloponnese upon his nephew Ptolemy,
Program. Acad. Upsal. 1826, 8vo. ; Schneidewin, Telesphorus was so indignant that he shook off his
Delect. Poes. Gracc. p. 374; Bergk, Poet. Lyr. allegiance, and having induced some of his soldiers
Graec. pp. 742, 743 ; Fabric. Bill. Gracc. vol. ii. to follow him, established himself in Elis on his own
p. 157; Bode, Gesch. d. Hellen. Dichtkunst, vol. ii. account, and even plundered the sacred treasures
pt. 2, pp. 118, ſoll. )
[P. S. ] at Olympia. He was, however, soon after, induced
TELESINUS, C. LU'CIUS, consul A. D. 66 to submit to Ptolemy. (Id. ib. 87. ) [E. H. B. ]
with Suetonius Paulinus. He is praised by Phi- TELESTAS or TELESTES (TAéotas, Te-
lostratus as a philosopher, and was, in consequence néotns). 1. A dancer, employed in the tragedies
of his love of philosophy, banished by Domitian. of Aeschylus; of whom Athenaeus (i. p. 22, a. )
(Tac. Ann. xvi. 14 ; Dion Cass. lxiii. 1 ; Philostrat relates that his skill was so great, that, in the
Vit. Apoll. iv. 40, vii. 11, viii. 12. )
representation of the Seven against Thebes, he made
TELESI'NUS, PON’TIUS. (Pontius. ] the actions manifest by his mimetic dancing, no
TELESIPPA (TENEOITTa), a lyric poetess of doubt as leader of the chorus. (Müller, Hist. Lit.
Lesbos, and one of the friends of Sappho. (Suid. ; of Greece, vol. i. p. 314. )
comp. Sappho, p. 703. )
[P. S. 2. Of Selinus, a distinguished poet of the later
TELESIS (TéRegis), of Methymna, an epic Athenian dithyramb, is mentioned by Diodorus
poet, not mentioned by any of the ancient authors, Siculus (xiv. 46) as flourishing at Ol. 95. 3, B. C.
but referred to on the Borghese tablet as the author 398, with Philoxenus, Timotheus, and Polyeidus ;
of a Titanomachia (Weichert, über Apollon. Rhod. and this date is confirmed by the Parian Marble
p. 197; Bode, Gesch. d. Hellen. Dichtkunst, vol. i. (Ep. 66. ), according to which Telestes gained a
p. 396).
[P. S. ] dithyrambic victory in B. C. 401. (Comp. Clinton,
TELESON and MNASITI'MUS (Tenbow, F. H. vol. ii. s. aa. 401, 398). He is also men-
Mvacitiuos), are names belonging to a family of tioned by Plutarch (Alex. 8), who states that
Rhodian artists, with whom we have become Alexander had the dithyrambs of Telestes and
acquainted through the inscriptions recently dis-Philoxenus sent to him in Asia. He is also re-
covered by professor Ross in the Acropolis offerred to by the comic poet Theopompus, in his
Lindos, in Rhodes, from two of which we learn Althaea (Ath. xi. p. 501, f. ; Meineke, Frag. Com.
that Mnasitimus, the son of Teleson, made a bronze Graec. vol. ii. p. 793, where Meineke promises
statue of Onomastus in Lindos, and Mnasitimus some future remarks upon the poet). Aristoxenus
and Teleson together made a bronze statue of wrote a life of him, which is quoted by Apollonius
Callicrates. Ross supposes that the Mnasitimus of Dyscolus (Hist. Mirab. 40, in Westermann's Pa-
both inscriptions was the same person, and that, as radoxographi, p. 113); and Aristratus, the tyrant
the former Teleson was the father, so the latter of Sicyon, erected a monument to his memory,
Teleson was the son, of Mnasitimus, chiefly because, adorned with paintings by Nicomachus. (Plin. H.
in the second inscription, the name of Mnasitimus N. xxxv. 10. 8. 36. $ 22, where the common reading
is put before that of Teleson. (Ross, Inschriften is Telesti, not Telestae ; NICOMACHUS).
von Lindos auf Rhodos, Nog. 5, 6, in the Rhein. The only remains of the poetry of Telestes are
Mus. 1846, vol.
