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

TAMOS. TAMPH ILUS. 973
TAV EIAE5 EPOIESEN, and now in the Museum the Athenian navy. (Thucyd. viii. 31; Arnold and
at Berlin. (Levezow, Verzeichniss, No. 685, p. 136; Gbller, ad loc.) In B. C. 411, when Tissaphernes
Gerhard, Berlin's ant. Bildwerke, No. 685, p. 223.) went to Aspendus, with the professed intention of
-It is remarkable that vases by the same maker bringing to the aid of the Peloponnesians the
should be found in Sicily and in Etruria; and also Phoenician fleet which he had promised, he com.:that the two specimens are in quite different styles missioned Tamos to provide for the maintenance
of workmanship. The first of these facts is taken of the Peloponnesian forces during his absence.
by R. Rochette as an indication of the early com- (Thucyd. viii. 87.) Tamos afterwards attached
mercial intercourse between Sicily and Etruria, by himself to the service of the younger Cyrus, and,
which the former country obtained the manufactures acting as his admiral, in B. c. 401, blockaded Miof the latter. Miiller supposes Taleides to have letus, which had refused to transfer its obedience
been of the Attic school of art, because the subject from Tissaphernes to the prince. When Cyrus
of the work found at Agrigentum is exactly re- marched eastward against his brother, Tamos conpeated on an Attic vase. (R. Rochette, Lettre ai ducted the fleet along the coast to accompany the
/[I. Schorn, pp. 17, 60, 2d ed.; MUller, A4rchiiol. movements and second the operations of the army,
d. Kunst, ~ 99, n. 3, No. 2.) [P. S.] which he joined at Issus in Cilicia. After the
TALNA, JUVE'NTIUS. [THALNA.] death of Cyrus and the consequent failure of the
TA'LIUS GEtIMINUS, is mentioned by Ta- rebellion, Artaxerxes sent Tissaphernes into Westcitus under A. D. 62. The name of Talius is of ern Asia to take, in addition to his own satrapy,
rare occurrence, ald is only found elsewhere in one the command of the provinces which had been
or two inscriptions. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 50.) subject to the prince, whereupon Tamos, in alarm,
TALOS (Tahcwr). 1. A son of Perdix, the fled from Ionia with his treasures and all his chilsister of Daedalus. He himself was a disciple of dren but one, and sailed to Egypt, where he hoped
Daedalus, and is said to have invented several in- to find refuge with Psammetichus, on whom he
struments used in the mechanical arts; but Dae- had conferred an obligation. Psammetichus, howdalus incensed by envy thrust him down the rock ever, put him and his children to death, in order
of the Acropolis at Athens. The Athenians wor- to possess himself of his money and ships. (Xen.
shipped him as a hero. (Apollod. iii. 15. ~ 9; Diod. Anab. i. 2. ~ 21,4. ~ 2. ii. 1. ~ 3, Hell. iii. 1. ~ 1;
iv. 76; Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 1643; Lucian, Diod. xiv. 19. 21. 35.) [E. E.]
Pisc. 42.) Pausanias (i. 21. ~ 6, 26. ~ 5, vii. 4. TAtMPHILUS or TA'MPILUS, the name of
~ 5) calls him Calos, and states that he was buried a family of the plebeian Baebia gens. In the
on the road leading from the theatre to the Acro- Fasti Capitolini we find Tamphilus, but on coins
polis. Hyginus (Fab. 39, 274) and Ovid (Met. Tampilus.
viii. 255; comp. Serv. ad Virg. Georg. i. 143, Aen. 1. Q. BAEBIUS TAMIPHILUS, was sent in B. C.
v. 14) call him Perdix, which, according to the 219, along with P. Valerius Flaccus, by the Rocommon tradition, was the name of his father. man senate to Hannibal at Saguntum, and after2. A man of brass, the work of Hephaestus. This wards proceeded to Carthage, when Hannibal
wonderful being was given to Minos by Zeus or would not listen to them. Tamphilus was also
Hephaestus, and watched the island of Crete by sent in the following year on another embassy to
walking round the island thrice every day. When- Carthage. (Liv. xxi. 6, 9, 18; Cic. Phil. v. 10.)
ever he saw strangers approaching, he made himself 2. CN. BAEBIUS TAMPHILUS, tribune of the
red-hot in fire, and then embraced the strangers plebs, B. C. 204, impeached the censors, M. Livius
when they landed. He had in his body only one Salinator and C. Claudius Nero, on account of the
vein, which ran from the head to the ankles, and way in which they had administered the duties of
was closed at the top with a nail. When he at- their office; but the senate, although discontented
tempted to keep the Argonauts from Crete by with the conduct of the censors, obliged the tribune
throwing stones at them, Medeia by her magic to drop the prosecution, as they thought it more adpowers threw him into a state of madness, or, ac- visable to uphold the principle of the irresponsibility
cording to others, under the pretence of making of the censors than to inflict upon them the punishhim immortal, she took the nail out of his vein and ment they deserved. In B. C. 199 Tamphilus was
thus caused him to bleed to death. Others again praetor, and received the command of the legions
related that Poeas killed him by wounding him of the consul of the preceding year, C. Aurelius
with an arrow in the ankle. (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 26; Cotta, which were stationed in the neighbourhood
Apollon. Rhod. iv. 1638, &c.; Plat. Min. p. 320.) of Ariminum, with instructions to await the ar3. A son of Oenopion. (Pans. vii. 4. ~ 6.) rival of the new consul, C. Cornelius Lentulus.
4. A son of Cres, and father of Hephaestus. But Tamphilus, anxious to obtain glory, made an
(Paus. viii. 53. ~ 2.) [L.S.] incursion into the country of the Insubrii, by
TALTHY'BIUS (TarOXewos), the herald of whom he was defeated with great loss. On the
Agalmemnon at Troy. (Hom. II. i. 320; Ov. Her. arrival of Lentulus soon afterwards, he was oriii. 9.) He was worshipped as a hero at Sparta dered to leave the province, and was sent back to
and Argos, where sacrifices also were offered to Rome in disgrace. In B. c. 186 Tamphilus was
him. (Pauns. iii. 12. ~ 6, vii. 23, in fin.; Herod. one of the triumviri for founding two colonies, and
vii. 134.) [L. S.] in B. C. 182 he was consul with L. Aemilius
TAMI'SIUS MUSTE'LA. [MUSTELA.] Paulus. In conjunction with his colleague, TamTA'MOS (TaAcms), a native of Memphis in philus fought against the Ligurians with success,
Egypt, was lieutenant-governor of Ionia under and remained in the country as proconsul in the
Tissaphernes. In B. c. 412, we find him joining following year. (Liv. xxix. 37; Val. Max. vii. 2.
Astyochus, the Spartan admiral, in the unsuccess- ~ 6; Liv. xxxi. 49, 50, xxxii. 1, 7, xxxix. 23, 56,
ful endeavour to persuade the partizans of Athens xl. 1, 16, 25.)
at Clazomenae to remove to Daphnus, —a place on 3. M. BAEBIUS TAMPHILUS, brother of No. 2,
the main land, and therefore beyond the reach of was one of the triumviri for founding a colony in