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

990- TELEPHUS. TELESARCHIDES.
Europa, who had been carried off by Zeus; but she Trist. v. 2, 15, Remed. Am. 47, Epist. ex Ponto.
died on the expedition, and was buried by Cadmus. ii. 26; Philostr. Vit. Apoll. ii. 14, &c.) Telephus
(Apollod. iii. 1. ~ 1.) Moschus (ii. 42) calls her the was worshipped as a hero at Pergamus (Pans. v. 1 3.
wife of Phoenix, the son of Agenor, and the Scholiast ~ 2), and on mount Parthenion, in Arcadia (Palls.
on Euripides (Ion, 5) calls her Telephe. [L. S.] viii. 34. ~ 5; Apollod. i. 8. ~ 6), and on the temple
TE'LEPHUS (TAXerpos), a son of Heracles and of Athena Alea, in Tegea, he was represented
Auge, the daughter of king Aleus of Tegea. He fighting with Achilles. (Paus. viii. 4, 5, in fin.;
was reared by a hind (E'Aapos), and educated by Miiller, Anc. Art and its Rem. ~ 410, 8.) [L. S.]
king Corythus in Arcadia. (Comp. AUGE.) When TE'LEPHUS (TiAeipos). 1. A Greek gramTelephus had grown up, he consulted the Delphic marian, a native of Pergamus. He lived in the
oracle as to who his mother was. He was ordered time of Hadrianus, and was one of the instructors
to go to king Teuthras in Mysia. (Pans. i. 4. ~ 9.) of Verus. (Capitol. VeI. 2.) He was the author
He there found his mother, was kindly received, of a considerable number of works, none of which,
and married Argiope, the daughter of Teuthras, however, have come down to us. Suidas gives the
whom he succeeded on the throne of Mysia. following list of them: —1. IlepI r&v 7rap''OYu4prP
(Apollod. iii. 9. ~ I; Diod. iv. 33.) According oxt7yvTro' v1/7ToptlcV, in two books. 2. rnep crvvto a different tradition in Hyginus (Fab. 100), T'rdews AXyov'A'TTLICO, in five books. 3. Ilepl
king Teuthras beilng hard pressed by Idas, who'rs KatO'"Oiu7pov pro7GpIKss. 4. rnpl OrO'O Oppou
wished to deprive him of his kingdom, solicited iKal ladrITwvos ov1cpyawvas. 5. rIolKrc7l7s (pXAoaraOs
the aid of Telephus, who, accompanied by Parthe- Bi3L@Aa /3'. 6. BioL'rpayLtrcY Kal KCO#IK&WV. 7.
lopaeus, had come into his kingdom, and promised BlCXlarmK EJirelpta, in three books (containing a list
him his throne and the hand of his daughter of books worth getting). 8.'Is cidvos "OglvJpos
Auge, if he would deliver him from his enemy. vy a&pXaLw, /XXIOA E IeI. 9. lepLrylqros Iep/yawdo v.
Telephus did so, and thus unwittingly married his 10. nepi -roO v Ilepyaltcp eCaaTorov, in two books.
own mother Auge. She, however, without know- 11. lIepl Tr&v'AOjvrpOt - Karao-rjpf'V. 12. rIepl
ing her son, would hear nothing of the marriage, TrCv'AO6vipot vower Kria e'c,. 13. rIepl -r&v
and resolved to murder her intended husband. A Ilepyauov Bao1AXEav', in five books. 14. nepl
dragon sent by the gods prevented this crime; and Xp7oeewv, a sort of dictionary, arranged in alphaas she confessed her intention to Telephus, he re- betical order, of things in common use, words,
solved to kill her; but as she invoked the aid of dress, &c. 15. Ilepl Trs'O3uooe'ws 7rXadv's. 16.
Heracles, the relation between them was discovered,'2VKUTtK1ro, in ten books. This quaint title was
and Telephus led his mother back to his own given to a dictionary of synonymous words, decountry. According to the common tradition, how- signed to give copiousness and facility in speaking.
ever, Telephus was king of Mysia at the time (Suid. s. v.; Vossius, de Hist. Gr. p. 264; Fabric.
when the Greeks went to the Trojan war, and Bibl. Gr. vol. i. p. 525, vol. vi. p. 380.)
when they invaded Mysia, he repelled them, being 2. The father of the grammarian Philetas of Cos.
of all the sons of Heracles the most like his father. He lived much earlier than the preceding, in the
(Pind. 01. ix. 112, &c., Istlam. v. 52; Paus. x. 28, time of Philip of Macedon. [C. P. M.]
in fin.) Dionysus, however, assisted the Greeks, TELES (TeMXas), a Greek philosopher, who is
and caused Telephus to stumble over a vine, in erroneously ranked by Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. i. p. 876)
consequence of which he was wounded by Achilles. among the Pythagoreans. He should rather be
(Pind. Isthmi. viii. 109; Diet. Cret. ii. 3; Eustath. classed with the Socratics; Diogenes, Crates, Bion,
ad Hom. p. 46; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 206, 211; Hygin. Aristippus, Xenophon, and Socrates himself, being
Fab. 101.) Now it was discovered that Telephus the philosophers with whose doctrines he seems
himself was a Greek, and he was requested to join chiefly to have concerned himself. He appears to
in the war against Priam. But he declined it on the have been a contemporary of Stilpon. (Teles, de
plea that his wife Astyoche was a daughter of Priam. Exilio, ap. Stob. Floril. xl. 8.) Teles was the
(Dict.Cret.ii.5.) Other accounts state that Astyoche author of various dialogues, of which some considerwas a sister of Priam (Eustath. ad Horn. p. 1697); able fragments have been preserved by Stobaeus,
Hyginus calls his wife Laodice, and a daughter of though they are not printed in the dialogical form.
Priam; and some, again, call his wife Hiera, by whom (Welcker, Kleine Schrifiten, vol. ii. p. 495.) Stobaeus
he is said to have been the father of Tarchon and has quoted from the following pieces or dialogues:Tyrrhenus. (Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 1242, 1249; Phi- 1. Ilepl avrrapKrceas (v. 67). 2. Mlj eTyac'reXos
lostr. Her. ii. 18.) The wound which Telephus /'o7ov, (xcviii. 72). 3. y6tKPmOmrs TrAorovT Kal
had received from Achilles could not be'cured apexes (xci. 33, xciii. 31). 4. Ilepl cpvy/s (xl.
(hence incurable wounds, proverbially T'514eca 8). 5. Inepl repaTrciacrews (cviii. 82). 6. rnepI
rpaigara, Paul. Aegin. iv. 46); and when he con- evnraOdeas (cviii. 83). 7. A couple of epitomized
suited the oracle he received the answer, that only extracts from pieces not named (xcv. 21. xcvii.
he could cure him who had wounded him. Telephus, 31).' [C. P. M.]
therefore, in a deplorable condition, went to seek TELESA'RCHIDES (TeAeoapXiLbs), an AtheAgamemnon; and on the advice of Clytaemnestra nian sculptor, who is mentioned by Eustathius (ad
he carried off Orestes from his cradle, threatening I1. xxiv. 333, p. 1358. 8), as the maker of a Hermes
to kill him unless his father would assist him in with four heads ('Ep/cs TerrpaKe'paXos), which
getting his wound cured. As the Greeks had re- stood in the Cerameicus at Athens, and bore the
ceived an oracle that without the aid of Telepbus following inscription:
they could not reach Troy, a reconciliation was'Epgu E'reTpata'psvme, KaXob TeAgoapXi~ov pyo7O',
easily brought about, and Achilles cured Telephus lav O' dpdaa.
by means of the rust of the spear by which the (Comp. Heyne, Prisc. Art. Opp. ex Epigr. Illustr.
wound had been inflicted; Telephus, in return, p. 84.) It isalso mentioned in the Lexicon ofPhotius,
pointed out to the Greeks the road which they had in the following terms,'Ep/xi s TETrparKEQaXos: 1E
to take. (Dict. Cret. ii. 10; Ov. ilIet. xii. 112, Kepa/EttEw, TeAseoapxI3ov Cpyov. There are some