A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

994 TEMPANIUS. TENNES.
143.) In private life sacrifices were offered to the people out of gratitude elected him tribune of
Tellus at the time of sowing and at harvest-time, the plebs in the following year. When one of his
especially when a member of the family had died colleagues L. Hortensius attempted to bring Semwithout due honours having been paid to him, for pronius to trial for his misconduct in the war,
it was Tellus that had to receive the departed into Tempanius generously came forward in defence of
her bosom. (Ov. Fast. iv. 629, &c.) At the fes- his former commander. (Liv. iv. 38-42; comp.
tival of Tellus, and when sacrifices were offered to Val. Max. vi. 5. ~ 2.)
her, the priests also prayed to a male divinity of TEMPSAtNUS, L. POSTU'MIIUS, praetor
the earth, called Tellumo. (Varro, ap. August. de B. c. 185, received Tarentum as his province, and
Civ. Dei, vii. 23.) [L. S.] proceeded with great vigour against the shepherds
TELMI'SSIUS (TehtefauoLeos), a surname of who had been plundering the surrounding country.
Apollo derived from the Lycian town of Telmissus He condemned as many as 7000 men. He was
or Telmessus. (Cic. de Div. i. 41; Steph. Byz. continued in his post the following year, that he
s. v. yaaEXeTral; Strab. xv. p. 665.) [L. S.] might entirely crush the insurrection of the shepTELPHU'SA (TeAhpooa'oa or TEipeovoa). 1. herds, and likewise apprehend those persons who
A daughter of Ladon, a nymph from whom the had taken part in the Bacchanalia at Rome, and
town of Telphusa in Arcadia derived its name. who had fled for refuge to that part of Italy.
(Steph. Byz. s. v.) Telphussaea or Tilphussaea (Liv. xxxix. 23, 29, 41.)
occurs as a surname of Demeter Erinnys, derived TE'NERUS (TeVEpos), a soothsayer, a son of
from a town Telphussion. (Schol. ad Soph. Antig. Apollo by Melia, and a brother of Ismenius. (Paus.
117; Callim. Fragyn. 207, ed. Bentley.) [L. S.] ix. 10. ~ 5, 26. ~ 1; Strab. ix. p. 413; Schol. ad
TELYS (TilAvs), a citizen of Sybaris, who Pind. Pyth. xi. 5.) [L. S.]
raised himself to the tyranny by the arts of a TENES or TENNES (TliJvms), a son of Cycnus,
demagogue, and persuaded the people to banish the king of Colone in Troas, and Procleia, or, ac500 of the richest citizens, and to confiscate their cording to others, a son of Apollo, and brother of
property. The exiles having taken refuge at Cro- Hemithea. After the death of Procleia, Cycnus
tona, Telys sent to demand that they should be married Philonome, a daughter of Craugasus or
given up, but, if we may believe Diodorus, Pytha- Traganasus. She fell in love with her stepson;
goras prevailed on the Crotoniats to persevere in and as she was unable to win the love of Tenes,
protecting them. The consequence was the war she accused him before his father of improper conbetween Sybaris and Crotona, in which the former duct towards her. Cycnus accordingly threw both
was destroyed, B.C. 510. (Herod. v. 44; Diod. xii. his son and daughter into a chest, and exposed
9.) In opposition to the above statement, Hera- them on the waves of the sea. But the chest was
cleides of Pontus (ap. Adthen. xii. p. 521) repre- driven on the coast of the island of Leucophrys,
sents the tyranny of Telys as overthrown by the which Tenes, after his own name, called Tenedos,
Sybarites before the fatal war with Crotona. In after its inhabitants had chosen him for their king.
thiis revolution, he tells us, they were guilty of Cycnus at length heard of the innocence of his son,
great cruelty, massacring all the adherents of Te- killed Philonome, and went to his children in
lys even at the altars, so that the statue of Hera Tenedos, where both he and Tenes were slain by
turned aside in horror and anger, and a fountain of Achilles, who, on his voyage to Troy, made a landblood gushed forth from the earth, which nothing ing on Tenedos. But Tenes was,afterwards wvorbut walls of brass could check. The destruction of shipped as a hero in Tenedos. (Paus. x. 14. ~ 2;
their city followed as their punishment. [E. E.] Diod. v. 83; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 232; Strab. xiv.
TEME'NIDAE. [TEMENUS, No. 3.] p. 640.) According to Pausanias, Tenes did not
TEMENITES(Te/ev'Tr'Vs),a surname of Apollo, allow his father to land in Tenedos, but cut off the
derived from his sacred temenus in the neighbour- rope with which Cycnus had fastened his ship to
hood of Syracuse. (Steph. Byz. s. v.; Sueton. Tib. the coast. (Comp. Steph. Byz. s. v. TErebos.) The
74; Thuc. vi. 75, 100.) [L. S.] death of Tenes by Achilles also is related diffeTE'MENUS (T~/cEvoS). 1. A son of Pelasgus, rently, for once, it is said, when Achilles was
educated Hera at Stymphalus in Arcadia. (Paus. pursuing the sister of Tenes in Tenedos, Tenes,
viii. 22. ~ 2.) endeavouring to stop him, was slain by Achilles,
2. A son of Phegeus. (Paus. viii. 24. ~ 4.) who did not know that Tenes was a son of Apollo.
3. Ason ofAristomachus, one of the Heracleidae. (Plut. Quaest. Graec. 28; Tzetz. I. c.) In the
He was the father of Ceisus, Cerynes, Phalces, temple of Tenes in Tenedos, it was not allowed to
Agraeus, and Hyrnetho. (Patus. ii. 28; Apollod. mention the name of Achilles, nor was any fluteii. 8. ~ 2.) He was one of the leaders of the He- player permitted to enter it, because the flute-player
racleidae into Peloponnesus, and, after the conquest Molpus had borne false witness against Tenes to
of the peninsula, he received Argos as his share. please his step-mother Philonome. (Plut. and
(Apollod. ii. 8. ~ 4, &c.; Plat. Min. p. 683, b.; Diod. 1. c.) [L. S.]
Strab. viii. p. 389.) His tomb was shown at Te- TE'NICHOS or TY'NNICHOS, an artist of
menion near Lerna. (Paus. ii. 38. ~ 1.) His unknown time, and perhaps only a mythological
descendants, the Temenidae, being expelled from name, mentioned on an inscription quoted by ProArgos, are said to have founded the kingdom of copius (Bell. Goth. iv. 22, p. 355. 4, ed. Hoeschel),
Macedonia, whence the kings of Macedonia called as occurring on a monument ascribed by local trathemselves Temenidae. (Herod.viii. 138; Thuc. dition, and by the inscription itself, to Agamemnon
ii. 99.) [L. S.] (SeelSVelcker, Sylloge, No. 182, p. 226; R. Rochette,
TEMPA'NIUS, SEX., one of the officers of Lettre a JIl. Schorn, p. 413, 2d ed.) [P. S.]
the cavalry under the consul C. Sempronius Atra- TENNES (Teevujs), king of Sidon in the retinus, in the war against the Volscians, B. C. 423. volt of Phoenicia against Artaxerxes III. He
It was chiefly through the exertions of Tempanius betrayed the town to Artaxerxes, but was notthat the Roman army was saved from defeat; and withstanding put to death by the Persian king,