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 TELOS. may be Tovhn-sur-Arroux; and thus the modei-n uame may enable us to correct the readinc; of the Table. [G. L.] TELOS (TiyAos: Eth.Ti)ios: Dilos or Pisco- pia), a small rocky island in the Carpathian sea, be- tween Khodus and Nisyrus, from the latter of which its distance is only 60 stadia. Strabo (s. p. 488) describes it as long and high, and abounding in stones fit for millstones. Its circumference was 80 stadia, and it contained a town of the same name, a liarbour, hot springs, and a temple of Poseidon. The attribute long given to it by Strabo is scarcely correct, since the island is rather of a circular form. The family of the Sicilian tyrant Gelon originally came from Telos. (Herod, vii. 153.) According to Pliny (iv. G9) the island was celebrated for a species of ointment, and was in ancient times called Agathussa. (Steph. B. s. v. TrjKos; Scylas, p. 38; Sladlasm. Mar. Matjiii, ^2'2.) The town of Telos was situated on the north coast, and remains of it are still seen above the modern village of Epis- copi. The houses, it appears, were all built in ter- races rising above one another, and supported by strong walls of unhewn stone. The acropolis, of which likewise a few remains exist, was at the top, which is now occupied by a mediaeval castle. In- scriptions have been found in Telos in great num- bers, but, owing to the nature of the stone, many of tliem are now illegible. (Comp. Ross, HeUenica, i. J). 59, foil., Reken auf den Gi'iech. Inseln, iv. p. 42, foil.) [L. S.] TELPHU'SA. [Thelpusa.] TEMA, a tribe and district in Arabia, which took their name from Tenia, one of the twelve sons of Ishmael. {Gen. xxv. 15; Is. xxi. 14; Jer. xxv. 23; ■Idh, vi. 19.) Ptolemy mentions in Arabia Deserta .1 town Themnia (0e,uju?7, v. 19. § 6). Tenia is 'll^tinguished in the Old Testament from Teman, a tiilpe and district in the land of the Edomites (Idu- iiiiica), which derived their name from Teman, a • lix. 7, 20; Ezek.-a-ay. 13; Avios, i. 12; Hah. iii. '!; Obad. 9.) The Temanites, like the other Edom- iii's, are celebrated in the Old Testament for their uisdom {Jerem. xlix. 7; Obad. 8; Baruch, iii. 22, st"|.); and hence we find that Eliphaz, in the book uf .Job, is a Temanite. {Job, ii. 11, iv. 1.) Jerome ( Oiiomast. s. v.) represents Tenia as distant 5 miles ( Kusebius says 15 miles) from Petra, and posse.ssing a Unman garrison. TE'MALA (TTjMoAa, Ptol. vii. 2. § 3), a river in the Aurea Kegio, in the district of India extra < i.iM_'eni, probably now represented by the great river c.f /gu, the Iratoaddy. Near it was a town which i' ill' the same name. [V.] lEMA'THIA. [Mkssenia, p. 341, b.] I EME'XIUiM {Trifieviov'), a town in the Argeia, ut the upjier end of the Argolic gulf, built by 'l'i-)iienus, the son of Aristomachus. It was distant ' -tadia from Nauplia (Paus. ii. 38. § 2), and 26 II Argos. (Strab. viii. ]>. 368.) The river 1 iiixus flowed into the sea between Temenium and I nia. (Paus. ii. 36. § 6, ii. 38. § 1.) Pausanias ■ r at Temenium two temples of Poseidon and Alilii-odite and the tomb of Temenus (ii. .38. § 1). ''Aing to the marshy nature of the plain, Leake V 1^ unable to explore the site of Temenium; but I; i^s identifies it with a mound of earth, at the Imhi, of which, in the sea, are remains of a dam funning a harbour, and upon the shore foundations of buildings, fi-agmcnts of pottery, &c. (Lrake, TEMESA. 1123 Morea, vol. ii. p. 476; Koss, Reisen im Pdoponncs, p. 149; Curtius, Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 383.) TEMENOTilYKA (TTjMfVou Qvpai. Paus.i. 35. § 7 : Eth. T-nixevo6vpev9, Coins), a small city of Ljdia, according to Pausanias {I. c), or of Phrygia, ac- cording to Hieroclcs (p. 668, ed. AVess.). It would seem to have been situated upon the borders of Mysia, since the Trimenothuritae {Tptij.fi/o6ovp7Tai) — which name is probably only anotlier form of the Temenothyritae — are placed by Ptolemy (v. 2. § 15) in Jlysia. (Eckhel, vol. iii. p. 119.) COIN or' TEMENOTIIYli.V. TE'iMESA or TEIIPSA {Tepteav and Te>ipa, Strab.; Te/ueo-r), Steph. B.; Tf/nif/a, Ptol.: Eth. Te- fj.e(Touos, Tempsanus), an ancient city on the W. coast of Bruttium, a little to the N. of the Gulf of Ilippo- nium, or Golfo di Sta Evjemia. Strabo tell.s us that it was originally an Ausonian city, but sub- sequently occupied by a colony of Aetolians who had accompanied Thoas to the Trojan War. (Strab. vi. p. 255.) JIany writers appear to have supposed this to be the Temesa mentioned by Homer in the Odyssey on account of its mines of copper {Odyss. i. 184); and this view is adopted by Strabo; though it is much more probable that the place alluded to by the poet was Temesa in Cyprus, otherwise called Tamasus. (Strab. l.c. Steph. B. s.v. Schol. ad Horn. Odyss. I. c.) We have no account of Temesa having leceived a Greek colony in historical times though it seems to have become to a great extent Hellenised, like so many other cities in this part of Italy. At one period, indeed, we learn that it was conquered by the Locrians (about 480 — 460 b. c); but we know nut liow long it continued subject to their rule. (Strab. I.e.) Neither Scylax nor Scymnus Chins mention it among the Greek cities in this part of Italy ; but Livy says expressly that it was a Greek city before it fell into the hands of the Brut- tians (Liv. xxsiv. 45). That people apparently made themselves masters of it at an early period of their career, and it remained in their hands till the whole country became sul)ject to the dominion of Pome. (Strab. I. c.) During the Second Punic Win- it .suffered sercrely at the hands,first of Hannibal, unci then of the Romans ; but some years after the dose of the war it was one of the places .selected by the Romans for the establishment of a colony, which was .sent thither at the same time with that to Crotona, Ii. c. 194. (Liv. xxxiv. 45.) But this colony, the members of which Jiad the privileges of Ro- man citizens, does not appear to have been nu- merous, and tile tdwn never ro.se to he a place of importance. Its c|)]ier mines, which are alluded to by several writers (Ovid, J/e/. xv. 706; Stat. S'dv. i. 1. 42), had cea.-^ed to he productive in the days cf Strabo (Strab. vi. p. 256). Tiie oidy mention of Tempsa which occurs in l.'oman history is in connec- tion with the great servile insurrection under Spiir- tacus, when a renniant of the servile force seem to have established them.selvcs at Teni|)sa, and for ii time maintained j)ossession of the town. (Cic Verr, 4 c 2
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