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

986 TECTAEUIS. TEIRESIAS.
their combined forces were defeated bv Sulla near image to the Meropes in the time of Heracles. if
Chaeronea, with great slaughter. (Plut. Sull. 15, worth anything, must signify that it was, like other
16, 19; Memnon, 3; Paus. i. 20. ~ 6, ix. 40. ~ 7, works of the early Greek artists, a copy of an older
x. 34, ~ 2.) From this time we hear no more of image of unknown antiquity. If so, we may conTaxiles till B. C. 74, when he commanded (together jecture that it was of wood; and this tallies with
with Hermocrates) the great army with which Muller's correction of Pausanias, XpveoO, which, if
Mithridates invaded Paphlagonia and Bithynia, in the true reading, must mean that the image was
the autumn of that year. During the subsequent of wood gilt. The statue is also mentioned by
operations at the siege of Cyzicus, he is mentioned Athenagoras, who further ascribes to the artists a
as giving the king the most judicious advice. (Ap- statue of Artemis, but this statement cannot be
pian. Mithr. 70, 72.) After the defeat of the king accepted on such authority. (Legat. pro C]hrist. 14.
and his retreat into his own territories, we again p. 61, Dechair.) There are copies of the Delian
find Taxiles sharing with Diophantus the actual Apollo on gems and on Attic coins. (Riiller,
command of the army which Mithridates opposed Archiiol. d. Kunst, ~ 86, note.) [P. S.]
to Lucullus near Cabeira, B. c. 72, where their TECMESSA (TVKtaroaaa), the daughter of the
skilful arrangements for a time held the balance of Phrygian king Teleutas, whose territory was rasuccess doubtful, and reduced the Roman general raged by the Greeks during a predatory excursion
to considerable straits for provisions. At length, from Troy. Tecmessa was made prisoner, and was
however, the campaign was terminated by a total given to Ajax, the son of Telamon, who lived with
rout, in which the royal camp fell into the hands her as his wife, and had by her a son, Eurysaces.
of the enemy. (Memnon. 4; comp. App. 1Mith. (Soph. Ajax; Schol. ad Hote. II. i. 138.) [L. S.]
79-82; Plut. Lucull. 15, 17.) Taxiles accom- TE'DIUS. 1. SEX. TEDIUS, a senator, who
palsied his royal master on his flight into Armenia, carried the corpse of Clodius to Rome, after the
and we subsequently (B. c. 69) find him mentioned murder of the latter by Milo. (Ascon. in Cic. Mil.
as present with Tigranes at the great battle of Ti- p. 33, ed. Orelli.)
granocerta, on which occasion he in vain endea. 2, TEDIUS AFER, consul designatus under Auvoured to restrain the overweening confidence of gustus, put an end to his own life, terrified by the
the Armenian monarch. (Plut. Lucull. 27.) This threats of the emperor. (Suet. Octav. 27.)
is the last time that his name occurs in history. 3. Q. TEDIUS, one of the friends of Augustus,
3. A general who commanded the auxiliary notorious for his luxury. (Tacit. Ann. i. 10.)
tlroops from the Lesser Armenia, that joined the TEGEA'TES (TEyedards), a son of Lycaon, and
army of Pompey before the battle of Pharsalia, the reputed founder of Tegea in Arcadia. (Paus.
B. c. 48. (Appian. B. C. ii. 71.) [E. H.-B.] viii. 3. ~ 1, 45. ~ 1.) He was married to Maera,
TAY'GETE (Tai)ye'rn), a daughter of Atlas by whom he had two sons, Leimon and Scephrus.
and Pleione, one of the Pleiades. (Apollod. iii. (Paus. viii. 53. ~ i.) His tomb was shown at
I0. ~ 1.) By Zeus she became the mother of Tegea. (Paus. viii. 48. ~ 4.) [L. S.]
Lacedaemon (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 3; Paus. iii. 1. TE'GULA, P. LICI'NIUS, the author of a
~ 2, 18. ~ 7, 20. ~ 2) and of Eurotas. (Steph. religious poem, which was sung by the Roman
Byz. s.v. TaivyETor.) Mount Taygetus, in La- virgins in B.C. 200. (Liv. xxxi. 12.) Vossius
conia, derived its name from her. (Schol. ad Eurip. supposed that he was the same person as the comic
Or. 615.) According to some traditions, Taygete poet C. Licinus Imbrex, but this is not probable.
refused to yield to the embraces of Zeus, and in [IMBREX.]
order to secure her against him, Artemis meta- TEGYRE'IITS (TeyUvpijos), a surname of
morphosed her into a cow. Taygete showed her Apollo, derived from the town of Tegyra in
gratitude towards Artemis by dedicating to her the Boeotia, where, according to some traditions, the
Cerynitian hind with golden antlers. (Schol. ad god had been born. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Te'yvpa
Pind. 01. iii. 53.) Some traditions, moreover, Plut. Pelop. 8.) [L. S.]
state that by Tantalus she became the mother of TEGY'RIUS (Te-ypLos), a Thracian king who
Pelops. (Hygin. Fab. 82.) [L. S.] received Eumolpus and his son Ismarus, and gave
TEBRUS (TiEpos), a son of Hippocoon, is also to the former his kingdom. (Apollod. iii. 15. ~ 4;
called Sebrus. (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 5;- Paus. iii. comp. EUMOLPUS.) [L. S.]
15. ~ 2; comp. HIPPOCooN; DoRCEUS.) [L. S.] TEIRE'SIAS or TIRE'SIAS (TelpqreoLas), a
TECTAEUS and ANGE'LION (TEKtca7os Kcal son of Everes (or Phorbas, Ptolem. Hephaest. 1)'A'yyehAgwv), early Greek statuaries, who are always and Chariclo, whence he is sometimes called EV77mentioned together. They were pupils of Dipoenus peils8s. (Callim. Lav. Pall. 81; Theocrit. Id. xxiv.
and Scyllis, and instructors of Callon of Aegina; 70.) He belonged to the ancient family of Udaeus
and therefore they must have flourished about at Thebes, and was one of the most renowned
01. 58, B. 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
so-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 Alosvsov is very difficult to correct: bathing, on which occasion the goddess is said to
MUller has suggested Xpveov: 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 Aius. 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 (avpry?). The tradition which ascribed the his eyesight. (Apollod. iii. 6. ~ 7; Callim. Lay.