Teios. See: [Teos].
Teium, a town of Paphlagonia on the Euxine sea.
Tela, a town of Spain.
Tĕlămon, a king of the island of Salamis, son of Æacus and Endeis. He was brother to Peleus, and father to Teucer and to Ajax, who on that account is often called Telamonius heros. He fled from Megara, his native country, after he had accidentally murdered his brother Phocus in playing with the quoit, and he sailed to the island of Salamis, where he soon after married Glauce, the daughter of Cychreus the king of the place. At the death of his father-in-law, who had no male issue, Telamon became king of Salamis. He accompanied Jason in his expedition to Colchis, and was arm-bearer to Hercules, when that hero took Laomedon prisoner, and destroyed Troy. Telamon was rewarded by Hercules for his services with the hand of Hesione, whom the conqueror had obtained among the spoils of Troy, and with her he returned to Greece. He also married Peribœa, whom some call Eribœa. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 13, li. 151.—Sophocles, Ajax.—Pindar, Isthmean, ch. 6.—Statius, Thebaid, bk. 6.—Apollodorus, bks. 1, 2, &c.—Pausanias, Corinthia.—Hyginus, fable 97, &c.——A seaport town of Etruria. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 4.
Telamoniădes, a patronymic given to the descendants of Telamon.
Telchīnes, a people of Rhodes, said to have been originally from Crete. They were the inventors of many useful arts, and, according to Diodorus, passed for the sons of the sea. They were the first who raised statues to the gods. They had the power of changing themselves into whatever shape they pleased, and, according to Ovid, they could poison and fascinate all objects with their eyes, and cause rain and hail to fall at pleasure. The Telchinians insulted Venus, for which the goddess inspired them with a sudden fury, so that they committed the grossest crimes, and offered violence even to their own mothers. Jupiter destroyed them all by a deluge. Diodorus.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 7, li. 365, &c.
Telchīnia, a surname of Minerva at Teumessa in Bœotia, where she had a temple. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 19.——Also a surname of Juno in Rhodes, where she had a statue at Ialysus raised by the Telchinians, who settled there.——Also an ancient name of Crete, as the place from whence the Telchines of Rhodes were descended. Statius, bk. 6, Sylvæ, poem 6, li. 47.
Telchīnius, a surname of Apollo among the Rhodians. Diodorus, bk. 5.
Telchis, a son of Europs the son of Ægialeus. He was one of the first kings of the Peloponnesus.
Telea, a surname of Juno in Bœotia.