Τελχίς (*telchis)

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Τελχίς · Telchis — LSJ

one of the Telchines, spiteful sorcerers

one of the Telchines, described as inhabitants of Crete (hence called Τελχῑνία, St.Byz.), Rhodes (Τελχῑνίς, Str. 14.2.7), Sicyon (St.Byz. s.v.), Ceos (Call. Fr. 9.65 P.), or Cyprus (Paus. 9.19.1), and the first workers in metal; but of ill report as spiteful sorcerers (Τ. γόητες Call. l.c.), D.S. 5.55, Str. 10.3.19, 14.2.7:—Τελχίνιος [ῑν], α, ον, epith. of Apollo, Hera, and the Nymphs, D.S. l.c.; of Athena at Teumessus, Paus. l.c.:—Τελχίνια [ῑν], τά, a festival at Delphi, Schwyzer 323 D 9 (iv B.

II a spiteful person, backbiter

later, as Appellat. τελχίν, a spiteful person, backbiter, Call. Aet. Oxy. 2079.1 [Fr. 1.1 Pf.] (pl., glossed by βάσκανοι) ; τελχίν τις ἢ δαίμων Sch. rec. A. l.c.; as Adj., τελχῖνες σῆτες βίβλων, of Grammarians, AP 11.321 (Phil.); as fem., τ. δεξιά Lib. Or. 60.9.

III

τελχῖνες, αἱ, = αἱ ὑπὸ πληγῆς εἰς θάνατον καταφοραί, Hdn.Gr. 1.17. (Connected with θέλγειν by ancient Gramm., cf. Ael.Dion. Fr. 436, Hsch. s.v. Θελγῖνες; T. was a king of Sicyon acc. to Paus. 2.5.6.)

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