TELEPHUS. 177 The child Telephus, exposed on Mount Parthenius, was won- derfully sustained by the milk of a doe : the herdsmen of Kory- thus brought him up, and he was directed by the Delphian oracle to go and find his parents in Mysia. Teuthras adopted him, and he succeeded to the throne : in the first attempt of the army of Agamemnon against Troy, on which occasion they mistook their point and landed in Mysia, his valor signally contributed to the repulse of the Greeks, though he was at last vanquished and desperately wounded by the spear of Achilles by whom how- ever he was afterwards healed, under the injunction of the ora- cle, and became the guide of the Greeks in their renewed attaoi upon the Trojans. 1 From Lykurgus, 2 the son of Aleus and brother of Auge, we pass to his son Ankseus, numbered among the Argonauts, finally killed in the chase of the Kalydonian boar, and father of Agape- nor, who leads the Arcadian contingent against Troy, (the adventurers of his niece, the Tegeatic huntress Atalanta, have already been touched upon), then to Echemus, son of Aeropus and grandson of the brother of Lykurgus, Kepheus. Echemus is the chief heroic ornament of Tegea. When Hyllus, the son of Herakles, conducted the Herakleids on their first expedi- tion against Peloponnesus, Echemus commanded the Tegean troops who assembled along with the other Peloponnesians at the isthmus of Corinth to repel the invasion : it was agreed that the dispute should be determined by single combat, and Echemus, as the champion of Peloponnesus, encountered and killed Hyllus. in his lost tragedy called Auge (See Strabo, xiii. p. 615). Respecting the Mtxro? of .^Eschylus, and the two lost dramas, 'Afaadai and Mvaol of Sopho- kles, little can be made out. (See Welcker, Griechisch. Tragod. p. 53, 408-414). 1 Telephus and his exploits were much dwelt upon in the lost old epic poem, the Cyprian Verses. See argument of that poem ap. DUntzer, Ep. Fragm. p. 10. His exploits were also celebrated by Pindar (Olymp. ix. 70-79J; he is enumerated along with Hector, Cycnns, Memnon, the most distinguished opponents of Achilles (Isthm. iv. 46). His birth, as well as his adventures, became subjects with most of the great Attic trage- dians.
- There were other local genealogies of Tegea deduced from Lykurgus :
Botachus, eponym of the Deme Botachidac at that place, was his grandson (Nicolans ap. Steph. Byz. v. Bwra^Wat). VOL. i. 8* 12oc.
