A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Θεοκλύμενος).

1. A son of Polypheides of Hyperasia, and a descendant of Melampus, was a soothsayer, who, in consequence of a murder, was obliged to take to flight, and came to Telemachus at the time when the latter quitted Sparta to return to Ithaca. (Hom. Od. 15.256, &c., 507, &c., 17.151, &c., 20.350, &c.)