or TELESTES (Τελέστας, τελέστης).

1. A dancer, employed in the tragedies of Aeschylus; of whom Athenaeus (i. p. 22a.) relates that his skill was so great, that, in the representation of the he made the actions manifest by his mimetic dancing, no doubt as leader of the chorus. (Müller, Hist. Lit. of Greece, vol. i. p. 314.)