Telchines

[ tel-kahy-neez ]

plural noun

, Classical Mythology.

1. nine dog-headed monsters, inhabiting the sea, who as great artisans crafted the sickle of Cronus and the trident of Poseidon.

Example Sentences

The traditions of Rhodes only supposed the Telchines, those of Crete Jasion, to have escaped the cataclysm.

From Project Gutenberg

Like the Curetes and Telchines they are mythical types of prehistoric workmen and architects, and as such the objects of worship.

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Euripylus' fam'd town, where Coän dames, What time the troops of Hercules them left, With horns were crown'd: and Phœbus' favor'd Rhodes; Jalysian Telchines, whose hateful eyes All vitiating, Jove detesting 'whelm'd Beneath his brother's waves.

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And yet, as Plato says, a discord and false note on the lyre makes not brother go to war with brother, nor sets friends at variance, nor makes states hostile to one another, so as to do and suffer at one another's hands the most dreadful things:205 nor can anyone say that there was ever a dissension in any city as to the pronunciation of Telchines: nor in a private house any difference between man and wife as to woof and warp.

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Still more difficult is it to make this distinction when we read of the mythical Dactyls of Ida in Crete or the Telchines or Cyclopes being acquainted with the smelting of χαλκός.

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