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LNS

Tēlegonus, Tēlegonī

Telegonus

Τηλέγονος,

noun (m., 3^rd Greek declension)

son of Ulysses and Circe, who, when he came to Ithaca, killed his father without knowing him
on his return he founded Tusculum

Abbreviations

Tēlegonus, i, m., = Τηλέγονος, son of Ulysses and Circe, who, when he came to Ithaca, killed his father without knowing him; on his return he founded Tusculum, Hyg. Fab. 127; Hor. C. 3, 29, 8; Prop. 2, 32 (3, 30), 4; Ov. F. 3, 92; 4, 71; Stat. S. 1, 3, 83; Sil. 7, 692; 12, 535; Hyg. Fab. 127.

—As an appellative: Tēlegoni, ōrum, the amatory poems of Ovid, so called because his misfortunes arose from them, Ov. Tr. 1, 1, 114.