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  • [525] From the 'Telephus' of Euripides, in which he introduces Achilles playing at dice.

    The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

  • Nor need we labour to identify a host of others; Iccius, Grosphus, Dellius; who figure as mere dedicatory names; nor persons mentioned casually, such as Telephus of the rosy neck and clustering hair (I, xiii; III, xix), whom Bulwer Lytton, with fine memories of his own ambrosial petted youth, calls a "typical beautyman and lady-killer."

    Horace William Tuckwell 1874

  • Euripides's play survives only in fragments - which are gathered in a new Loeb edition which also includes lost chunks of his Oedipus and Telephus.

    Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG: 2009

  • Euripides's play survives only in fragments - which are gathered in a new Loeb edition which also includes lost chunks of his Oedipus and Telephus.

    Divine sex and melting icecaps 2009

  • And Auge bare Telephus of the stock of Areas, king of the

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • But Telephus routed the spearmen of the bronze-clad Achaeans and made them embark upon their black ships.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Eurypylus the son of Telephus arrives to aid the Trojans, shows his prowess and is killed by Neoptolemus.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Neoptolemus who slays Eurypylus, son of Telephus, the making of the wooden horse, the spying of Odysseus and his theft, along with

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Telephus comes out to the rescue and kills Thersander and son of Polyneices, and is himself wounded by Achilles.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Machaon was killed by Eurypylus, the son of Telephus.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

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