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

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and married Penelope, by whom he became the amphitheatre, Telemachus rushed into the arena,
father of Italus. (Hes. Theog. 1014; Hygin. Fab. and tried to separate the gladiators. The spectators,
127; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 805; Eustath. ad Horn. in the first moment of exasperation, stoned him to
pp. 1660, 1676; Serv. ad Aen. ii. 44; Lucian, death, but the emperor Honorius proclaimed him a
De Salt. 46; Aristot. Poet. 14.) In Italy Tele- martyr, and soon afterwards abolished the gladiagonus was believed to have been the founder of the torial combats, a measure which Constantine had
towns of Tusculum and Praeneste. (Ov. Fast. iii. in vain attempted, and which Honorius had long
92, iv. 71; Horat. 1. c.; Dionys. Hal. iv. 45; hopelessly desired to effect. (Theodoret. H.E. v.
Plut. Parall.,lfin. 41.) In some traditions Tele- 26). Some doubt has been thrown upon the story,
gonus (also called Teledamus) is described as a son on account of the absence from the Theodosian
of Odysseus by Calypso. (Eustath. ad Horn. p. Code of any edict of Honorius prohibiting such
1796.) [L. S.] combats; but there was already such an edict by
TELE'MACHUS (T71XehtaXos), the son of Constantine in existence, and no evidence can be
Odysseus and Penelope (Hom. Od. i. 216). He produced to show that there were any gladiatorial
was still an infant at the time when his father fights after this period, although we know that
went to Troy, and in his absence of nearly twenty the combats of wild beasts continued till the fall of
years he grew up to manhood. After the gods in the Western Empire. (Schrdckh, Christliche Kircouncil had determined that Odysseus should re- chengeschichte, vol. vii. p. 254, or 238, 2d ed.;
turn homne from the island of Ogygia, Athena, as- Gibbon, c. 30, vol. v. p. 199, ed. Milman, with
suming the appearance of Mentes, king of the Milman's Note.) [P. S.]
Taphians, went to Ithaca, and advised Telemachus TELEMNASTUS (T au'cIvaU'os), a Cretan,
to eject the troublesome suitors of his mother from whom Perseus sent to Antiochus Epiphanes, in
his house, and to go to Pylos and Sparta, to gather B. C. 168, to urge him by every motive of selfinformation concerning his father. Telemachus interest to side with him against Rome. (Polyb.
followed the advice, but the suitors refused to quit xxix. 3.) We may perhaps identify this person
his house; and Athena, in the form of Mentes, with the Telemnastus, a Gortynian, who with 500
accompanied Telemachus to Pylos. There they men effectually aided the Achaeans in their war
were hospitably received by Nestor, who also sent with Nabis. (Pc;yb. xxxiii. 15.) [E. E.]
his own son to conduct Telemachus to Sparta. TE'LEMUS (T.e/Auos), a son of Eurymus, and
Menelaus again kindly received him, and commu- a celebrated soothsayer. (Hom. Od. ix. 509; Ov.
nicated to him the prophecy of Proteus concerning let. xiii. 731; Theocrit. Idyll. vi. 23.) [L. S.]
Odysseus. (Hom. Od. i.-iv.) From Sparta Tele- TELENI'CUS (TeAEhI'KOS), of Byzantium, is
machus returned homle; and on his arrival there, mentioned by Athenaeus as one of the miserable
he found his father, with the swineherd Eumaeus. flute-players of the Athenian dithyramb. (Ath. xiv.
But as Athena had metamorphosed him into a p. 638, b.) He appears to have been ridiculed by
beggar, Telemachus did not recognise his father Cratinus, in his Seriphians, and the -worthlessness
until the latter disclosed to him who he was. of his nomes gave rise to the proverbial expressions,
Father and son now agreed to punish the suitors; TesemrKiaa and TeAse[KELos rX C (Hesych. s. v.
and when they were slain or dispersed, Telemachus TeevlicUM;l; Etyn. Mag. s. v. p. 751. 5; Phot. Lex.,
accompanied his father to the aged Laertes. (Horn. s. v. p. 574. 6; Suid. s. v. TeAEvrsKrcai, which
Od. xv.-xxiv.; comp. ODYSSErJS.) In the Post- should be Tehes o'Kuate; Meineke, Frag. Coin.
Homeric traditions, we read that Palamedes, when Graec. vol. ii. p. 139.) P. S.]
endeavouring to persuade Odysseus to join the TE'LEON (Tes'wv,). 1. An Athenian, a son
Greeks against Troy, and the latter feigned idiotcy, of Ion, the husband of Zeuxippe, and father of the
placed the infant Telemachus before the plough Argonaut Butes. (Apollod. i. 9. ~ 16; Apollon.
with which Odysseus was ploughing. (Hygin. Fab. Rhod. i. 95.) From him the Teleonites in Attica
95; Serv. ad Aen. ii. 81; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 384; derived their name. (Eurip. Ion, 1579.)
Aelian, V. H. xiii. 12.) According to some ac- 2. The father of the Argonaut Eribotes. (Apolcounts, Telemachus became the father of Perseptolis lon. Rhod. i. 71.) [L. S.]
either by Polycaste, the daughter of Nestor, or by TELE'PHANES (T1Apdav71s), artists. 1. Of
Nausicaa, the daughter of Alcinous. (Eustath. ad Sicyon. [ARDICES].
Hom. p. 1796; Diet. Cret. vi. 6.) Others relate 2. A Phocian statuary, who flourished in
that he was induced by Athena to marry Circe, Thessaly, where he worked for the Persian kings,
and became by her the father of Latinus (Hygin. and, according to Muller, for the Aleuads; but
Fab. 127; comp. TELEGONUS), or that he married whatever probability there may be for the latter
Cassiphone, a daughter of Circe, but in a quarrel statement, it is not made by Pliny, who is our only
with his mother-in-law he slew her, for which in authority for the artist. (Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 8. s. 1 9.
his turn he was killed by Cassiphone. (Tzetz. ad ~ 9; Miiller, Archsiol. d. Kunst, ~ 112, n. 1, ~ 247,
ALycoph. 808.) -le is also said to have had a n..6.) Pliny tells us that, although little known
daughter called Roma, who married Aeneas. (Serv. beyond Thessaly, where his works lay concealed
ad Aen. i. 273.) One account states that Odysseus. from the notice of the rest of Greece, he was menin consequence of a prophecy that his son was tioned with great praise by artists who had written
dangerous to him, sent him away from Ithaca. upon art, and who placed him on an equality with
Servius (ad Aen. x. 167) makes Telemachus the Polycleitus, Myron, and Pythagoras. His works
founder of the town of Clusium in Etruria. [L. S.] were, Larissa, Spintlharus a victor in the pentathlon,
TELE'MACHUS, an Asiatic monk and martyr; and Apollo. As he worked for Darius and Xerxes,
who is justly renowned for the act of daring self- he must have flourished in the early part of the
devotion, by which he caused the gladiatorial fifth century, B c. [P. S.]
combats at Rome to be abolished, and obtained for TELEPHASSA (T7XE)aoaaa), the wife of Agehimself the honours of canonization. In the year nor, and mother of Europa, Cadmus, Phoenix, and
A. D. 404, in the midst of the spectacles of the Cilix. She, with her sons, went out in search 4o