proper noun · masculinethird declension
Telchīnes
Telchīnes m pl (genitive Telchīnum)
Classical[tɛɫˈkʰiː.nɛs]Ecclesiastical[telˈkiː.nes]
Meaning
- the Telchines, a fabled family of priests in Rhodes
Phoebeamque Rhodon et Ialysios Telchinas, / quorum oculos ipso vitiantes omnia visu / Iuppiter exosus fraternis subdidit undis
She passed Rhodes, Phoebus' island, and the Telchines of Ialsos, whose all-devastating gaze Jupiter hated and buried beneath his brother's waves. ―Dan Curley, Tragedy in Ovid: Theater, Metatheater, and the Transformation of a Genre8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 7.365hoc, docti quamquam maiora, laborant / Cyclopes, notique operum Telchines amica / certatim iuuere manu; sed plurimus ipsi / sudor.
at this do the Cyclopes toil though they are learned in greater arts; the skillful Telchines lend a hand in friendly rivalry; but the greatest 'sweat' is his own ―Christopher Chinn, "Intertext, Metapoetry, and Visuality in the Achilleid", in Brill's Companion to Statius, edited by William J. Dominik, Carole E. Newlands, and Kyle Gervais, page 175Publius Papinius Statius, Thebais 2.274 (dactylic hexameter)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | Telchīnes |
| genitive | — | Telchīnum |
| dative | — | Telchīnibus |
| accusative | — | Telchīnas |
| ablative | — | Telchīnibus |
| vocative | — | Telchīnes |
Telchīnes, um, m., = Τελχῖνες,
I. a fabled family of priests in Rhodes, famous for their magic arts, Ov. M. 7, 365; Stat. Th. 2, 274.
Origins
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Τελχῖνες (Telkhînes).