(), a Greek philosopher, who is erroneously ranked by
Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. i. p. 876) among the Pythagoreans. He should rather
be classed with the Socratics; Diogenes, Crates, Bion, Aristippus, Xenophon, and Socrates
himself, being the philosophers with whose doctrines he seems chiefly to have concerned
himself. He appears to have been a contemporary of Stilpon. (Teles, de
Exilio, ap. Stob. Floril. 40.8.)
Teles was the author of various dialogues, of which some considerable fragments have been
preserved by Stobaeus, though they are not printed in the dialogical form. (Welcker, Kleine Schriften, vol. ii. p. 495.) Stobaeus has quoted from the following
pieces or dialogues :--