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Teumessos: Eth. Teumessios. A village in Boeotia, situated in the
plain of Thebes, upon a low rocky hill of the same name. The name of this hill
appears to have been also given to the range of mountains separating the plain
of Thebes from the valley of the Asopus. Teumessus was upon the road from Thebes
to Chalcis (Paus. ix. 19. § 1), at the distance of 100 stadia from the former.
(Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 1105.) It is mentioned in one of the Homeric hymns (Hymn.
in Apoll. 228) with the epithet lechepoie or grassy, an epithet justified by the
rich plain which surrounds the town. Teumessus is celebrated in the epic legends,
especially on account of the Teumessian fox, which ravaged the territory of Thebes.
(Paus. l. c.; Anton. Lib. 41; Palaeph. de Incrsedib. 8.) The only building at
Teumessus mentioned by Pausanias was a, temple of Athena Telchinia, without any
statue.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
A mountain in Boeotia, near Hypatus, and close to Thebes, on the road from the latter place to Chalcis.
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