Tallaeus
Tallaeus or TALAEUS MONS (Böckh, Corp. Inscr. Graec. vol. ii. p. 423; Hesych. sub voce), the station of Talus, the mythical man of bronze, and the guardian of the island of Crete. The wellknown inscription which deplores the loss of Artemis, the chaste wife of Salvius Menas, is now buried by the mass of earth and stones heaped up at the entrance of the stalactitic cavern of Melidhóni. This grotto, memorable in modern times for the massacre of the Cretan Christians by the Mohammedans, is identified from the inscription with the spot where in ancient times human victims were presented before the statue of Talus. (Pashley, Travels, vol. i. pp. 126--139.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 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.