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

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, Frag. Comn. Graec. vol. i. pp. 87-90,
up. (Diod. 1. c.; Strab. xiv. p. 653; Pans. ix. vol. ii. pp. 361-379, Editio Minor, pp.
19. ~ 1.) Rhea, Apollo and Zeus, however, are 130-138; Bergk, Reliq. Corn. 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 (TvTqEKhjs), was one of the amhave 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 Hlon. 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. f3dciaKavo Kal?-yswrEs; Strab. especially enjoined to intercede on behalf of Poly1. c.; 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. 1. c.; Tzetz. Chil. xii. 814). They had prayer was refused, and, in B. C. 155, Telecles and
it in their power to bring oni hail, rain, and snow, Xenon were sent again to Rome oil the same misand to assume any form they pleased (Diod. 1. c.); sion. On this occasion the senate was more fathey 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 praesaid 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 pasworked in brass and iron, made the sickle of Cronos sages Polybius calls Telecles r'J, AiYEacTjv, but
and the trident of Poseidon. (Diod. and Strab. the conjectural substitution of TEYsedTrvY is highly
i. c.; Callim. Hymn. in Del. 31.) This last feature plausible. [E. E.]
in the character of the Telchines seems to have TE'LECLES (TvqXEsCXis), artist. [TEnODORvS].
been the reason of their being put together with TE'LECLUS (T'NeKhos), 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 Amyaccompanied 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 MesseHiJck, Creta, i. p. 345, &c.; Welcker, Die Aeschyl. nians, in a temple of Artemis Limnatis, on the
Trilogie, p. 182, &c.; Lobeck, Aglaoplham. p. 1182, borders. According to the Spartan account, he
&c.) [L. S.] had gone thither to offer sacrifice, with a company
TELEBOAS (TsijesJa5.) 1. A grandson of of maidens, and fell in an attempt to rescue them
Lelex, a son of Pterelaus and brother of Taphlius. from the violence of the Messenians. The Messe(Eustath. ad Horn. p. 1473; Schol. ad Apolloss. nian statement, however, was, that he had treaRl/od. 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 mur2. A son of Lycaon in Arcadia. (Apollod. iii. dering a number of the noblest Messenians at the
8. ~ I.) festival, and that the objects of the plot had killed
3. A centaur. (Ov. Met. xii. 441.) [L. S.] him and his associates in self-defence. (Herod. vii.
TELECLEIDES (T/h1XefXGei's), a distinguished 204; Aristot. ap. Schol. ad Pind. Istihm. vii. 18;
Athenian comic poet of the Old Comedy, flourished Pauns. iii. 2, iv. 4; Ephor. ap. Strab. vi. p. 279;
about the same time as Crates and Cratinus, and a Clint. F. H. vol. i. pp. 129, 250, 337.) [E. E.]
little earlier than Aristophanes, with whom, how- TELEIGONUS (T?X'yovos). 1. A son of
ever, he may have been partly contemporary, and Proteus and brother of Polygonus, was killed, tolike whom he was an earnest advocate of peace, gether with his brother, by Heracles, whom they
and a great admirer of the ancient manners of the had challenged to a contest in wrestling. (Apolage of Themistocles. Six plays are attributed to led. ii. 5. ~ 9; comp. POLYGONUS.)
him (Anon. de Corn. p. xxxiv.), perhaps including 2. A king of Egypt who married To, after she
the one which the ancient critics considered had come to rest from her wandering and found
spurious (Phryn. Eel. Att. p. 291 ); for there are her son Epaphus. (Apollod. ii. 1. ~ 3.) Accordonly five titles extant,'AutepTt'cr0soEv,'A*evaee, ing to the Scholiast on Euripides (Or. 920) this'Hoioaoi, flpvrcsES, w TEPj-/oi. Of these plays we Telegonus was a son of Epaphus and a brother of
possess some interesting fragments, especially those Libya.
in which he attacks Pericles and extols Nicias. 3. A son of Odysseus by Circe. At the time
(Plut. Per. 3, 16, Nic. 4.) Meineke conjectures when Odysseus had returned to Ithaca, Circe sent
that the second of these fragments was written out Telegonus in search of his father. A storns
soon after the ostracism of Thucydides and the cast his ship on the coast of Ithaca, and being
complete establishment of the power of Pericles, in pressed by hunger, he began to plunder the fields.
01. 83. 4, B.c. 444. Bergk thinks that the anony- Odysseus and Telemachus, on being informed
mous quotation in Plutarch (Per. 7), referring to of the ravages caused by the stranger, Went out to
the subjugation of Euboea by Pericles, after it had fight against him; but Telegonus ran Odysseus
revolted (a. c. 445), ought to be assigned to through with a spear which he had received from
Telecleides, as well as a fragment in Herodian his mother. (Comp. Horat. iii. 29. 8; Ov. Trist.
(rcepl eov. A5'. p. 17, 11) respecting Aegina, which i. 1, 114.) At the command of Athena, Telegonus,
may very probably refer to the expulsion of the accompanied by Telemachus and Penelope, went to
Aeginetans ill B. c. 431 (Teuc. ii. 27). There are Circe in Aeaea, there buried the body of Odysseus,