Telchīnes — Lewis & Short
Telchīnes, um, m., = *telxi=nes,
I a fabled family of priests in Rhodes, famous for their magic arts, Ov. M. 7, 365; Stat. Th. 2, 274.
The corpus record — Latin
Telchines
Telchines · m
a fabled family of priests in Rhodes
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
- Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- Telchines Statius, Thebais 2.274
- Telchines Statius, Silvae 4.6.47
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.