Tellias

Te'llias

(Τελλίας).

1. Of Elis, a distinguished seer, was one of the commanders of the Phocians in a war against the Thessalians a few years before the invasion of Greece by Xerxes. After the defeat of the Thessalians his statue was erected by the Phocians in the temple at Delphi, (Hdt. 8.27; Paus. 10.1.8-11, 10.13.7.)

Te'llias

2. One of the generals of the Syracusans, when their city was besieged by the Athenians during the Pelopennesian war. (Thuc. 6.103.)

Te'llias

3. A citizen of Agrigentum, usually called Gellias. [Gellias.]

Tellias Tellias, person, perhaps of the Teliadae

• his device for a Phocian night attack on Thessalians: Hdt. 8.27
• Elean soothsayer, serves with Phocians: Paus. 10.1.8, 10, 11, Paus. 10.13.7