Telenicus
Τελένικος
(Τελένικος), of Byzantium, is mentioned by Athenaeus as one of the miserable flute-players of the Athenian dithyramb. (Ath. xiv. p. 638b.) He appears to have been ridiculed by Cratinus, in his Seriphians, and the worthlessness of his nomes gave rise to the proverbial expressions, Τελενικίσαι and Τελενίκειος ἠχώ (Hesych. s. r. Τελενικίσαι; Elym. May. s. v. p. 751. 5; Phot. Lex. s. v. p. 574. 6; Suid. s. v. Τελενικῆσαι, which should be τελενικίσαι; Meineke, Frag. Com. Graec. vol. ii. p. 139.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.