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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="T"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="telesphorus-bio-2" n="telesphorus_2"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Tele'sphorus</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Τελεσφόρος</surname></persName>), a general in the
      service of Antigonus, the king of Asia, who was sent by him in <date when-custom="-313">B. C.
       313</date>, with a fleet of fifty ships and a considerable army to the Peloponnese, to oppose
      the forces of Polysperchon and Cassander. His arms were at first very successful; he drove out
      the Macedonian garrisons from all the cities of the peninsula, except Sicyon and Corinth,
      which were held by Polysperchon himself; but having joined with Medius in an attempt to
      relieve Orens. to which Cassander had laid siege, they were defeated, with the loss of several
      ships. (<bibl n="Diod. 19.74">Diod. 19.74</bibl>, <bibl n="Diod. 19.75">75</bibl>.) The
      following summer (<date when-custom="-312">B. C. 312</date>) Antigonus having conferred the chief
      direction of the war in the Peloponnese upon his nephew Ptolemy, Telesphorus was so indignant
      that he shook off his allegiance, and having induced some of his soldiers to follow him,
      established himself in Elis on his own account, and even plundered the sacred treasures at
      Olympia. He was, however, soon after, induced to submit to Ptolemy. (Id. <hi rend="ital">ib.
       87.</hi>) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.E.H.B">E.H.B</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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