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 1122 TELLENAE. TELLE'NAE (TeWriu-n- Dion. Hal.; TeAAi>ai, Strab. : Eth. TeAATjr'eus, Tellenensis), an ancient city of Latium, which figures in tlie early Roman history. According to Dionysius it was one of the cities founded by the Aborigines soon after their settlement in Latium (Dionys. i. 16), a proof at least that it was regarded as a place of great anti- quity. Livy also reckons it as one of the cities of the Prisci Latini (i. 33), which may perhaps point to the same result, while Diodorus includes it in his list of tlie colonies of Alba. (Diod. vii. ap. Euseh. Arm. p. 185.) It was attacked by the Roman king Ancus Marcius, who took the city, and trans- ported the inhabitants to Rome, where he settled them on the Aventine, together with those of Poli- torium and Ficana. (Liv. i 33; Dionys. iii. 38,43.) Tellenae, however, does not seem, like the other two ])laces just mentioned, to have been hereby reduced to insignificance; for its name appears again in b. c. 493 among the confederate cities of the Latin League (Dionys. v. 61); and though this is the last mention tliat we find of it in history, it is noticed both by Strabo and Dionysius as a place still in existence in their time. (Dionys. i. 16; Strab. v. p. 231.) It is probable, however, that it had at that time fallen into complete decay, like Antemnae and Collatia; as it is only mentioned by Pliny among the once cele- brated cities of Latium, which had left no traces of their existence in his day (Plin. iii. 5. s. 9), and from this time its name wholly disappears. The notices of Tellenae aftord scarcely any clue to its position; though the circumstance that it continued to be inhabited, however slightly, down to the days of Augustus, would afford us more hope of being able to identify its site than is the case with Poli- torium, Apiolae, and other places, which ceased to exist at a very early period. It is this reason that has led Nibby to identify the ruins of an ancient city at La Giostra, as those of Tellenae, rather than Politorium, as supposed by Cell. [Politokium.] The site in question is a narrow ridge, bounded by two ravines of no great depth, but with abrupt and precipitous banks, in places artificially scarped, and still presenting extensive remains of the ancient walls, constructed in an irregular style of massive quadrangular blocks of tufo. No doubt can exist that these indicate the site of an ancient city, but whether of Politorium or Tellenae, it is impossible to determine ; though the remains of a Roman villa, which indicate that the spot must have been in- habited in the early ages of the Empire, give some additional probability to the latter attribution. La Giostra is situated on the right of the Via Appia, about 2 miles from a farm-house called Fiorano, immediately adjoining the- line of the ancient high- road. It is distant 10 miles from Rome, and 3 from Le Frattocchie, on the Via Appia, adjoining the ruins of Bovillae. (Gell, Top. of Rome, pp. 280 — 283; Nibby, Dinlorni, vol. iii. pp. 146—153.) Wliether the proverbial expression of " tricae Tel- lenae" has any reference to the ancient city of Latium or not, can hardly be determined, the origin and meaning of the phrase being involved in com- plete obscurity. (Varro, «/>. A'om. i. p. 8; Arnob. wh. Gentes,v. p. 28, with Ochler's note.) [E. H. B.] TELMESSUS, or TELMISSUS (TeKix-nfftrds, TfA^KTcrds, or TeXfiiaos: Eth. TeXniacrevs). 1. A flouri^^hing and prosperous city in the west of Lycia, was situated near Cape Telmissis (Strab. xiv. p. 665), or Telmissias (Steph. B. s. v. TeA^iff- (t6s), on a bay which derived from it the name of TELONNUM. Sinus Telmisslcus. (Liv. xxxvii. 16; Lncan. viii. 248.) On the south-west of it was Cape Pedalium, at a distance of 200 stadia. Its inhabitants were celebrated in ancient times for their skill as diviners, and were often consulted by the Lydian kings. (Herod, i. 78; comp. Arrian, Anab. ii. 3. § 4.) In the time of Strabo, however, who calls it a small town (TroAt'xi'^), it seems to have fallen into decay; though at a later period it appears to have been an episcopal see. (Hierocl. p. 684; comp. Pomp. Mela, i. 15: Plin. v. 28 ; Ptol. v. 3. § 2 ; Polyb. xxii. 27; Studimm. Mar. M. §§ 255, 256; Scylax, p. 39, where it is miswiitten ©eacitrffdy.) Considei- able remains of Telmessus still exist at Myes or Meis; and those of a theatre, porticoes, and sepulchral chambers in the living rock, are among the most remarkable in all Asia Minor. (Leake, Asia M'mur, p. 128; Fellows, Asia Minor, p. 243, where some representations of the remains of Telmessus are figured; Lycia, p. 106, fjll.) 2. A small town of Caria, at a distance of 60 stadia from Halicarnassus, is likewise sometimes called Telmessus, and sometimes Telmissus. (Suid. s. V. ; Elym. Mag. s. v. ; Arrian, Anah. i. 25. § 8; Cic. de Div. i. 41; Plin. v. 29, xxx. 2.) The Carian Telmessus has often been confounded with the Lycian, and it is even somewhat doubtful whe- ther the famous Telmessian soothsayers belonged to the Carian or the Lycian town. But the former must at all events have been an obscure place; and that it cannot have been the same as the latter is clear from the statement of Polemo in Suidas, that it was only 60 stadia from Halicarnassus. [L. S.] TELMESSUS, according to Pliny (v. 29), a tri- butary of the river Glaucus in Caria, but it flowed in all probability near the town of Telmessus, which derived its name from it. [L. S.] TELMI'SSICUS SINUS, a bay between Lycia and Caria, which derived its name from the Lycian town of Telmessus (Liv. xxxvii. 16; Lucan, viii. 248); but it is more commonly known by the name Glaucus Sinus, and is at present called the Bay of Maori. [L. S.] TELMISSIS PROMONTORIUM. [Telmessus.] TE'LOBIS (TrjAogis, Ptol. ii. 6. § 72), a town of the Jaccetani in Hispania Tarraconensis, now Martorell. (Cf. Laborde, /i/«. i. §73; Swinburne, Lett. 8.) [T. H. D.] TELO MARTIUS {Toulon), in Gallia Narbonen- sis. This name is not mentioned by the geographers. It occurs in the Maritime Itin. and in the Notit. Imp. Occid., where a " procurator Baphii Telonensis Galliarum " is mentioned, which indicates the exist- ence of a dyeing establishment there. In Lucan (iii. 592) Telo is the name of a pilot or helmsman, and Oudendorp supposes that the poet gave the man this name because he was of the town Telo; which seems a strange conjecture. And again Silius (xiv. 443) is supposed to allude to the same town, when he says — " Et Neptunicolae transverberat ora Telonis." The old Roman town is said to have been at or near Toulouzan, where the Lazaretto now is. {Statist, dit iJep. des Bouches du Rhone, referred to by Ukert, Gallien, p. 428.) [G. L.] TELONNUJI, in Gallia. The Table has a name on the route between Aquae Bormoiiis {Bonrht/n V Archamhaidt) and Augustoduuum {Aicfun), whicii name begins with T and ends with onnwn. D'An- ville gives good reasons for supposing that the place i