Tela

Eleg. 6. 22. Teos was a town in Ionia, the birthplace of A nacre on, called by Ovid the Teian Muse. (Tr. 2. 364.) Tela ar. (See also Eden, Seleucia.) P. L. 4. 214. A place in Me so pot am i a not exactly identified. Milton’s reference depends on 2 Kings 19. 12 and Isaiah 37. 12, and he puts the place on the eastern border of Eden, apparently identifying it with Seleucia on the Tigris. This is in accord with Tremellius and Junius, who write of Tele ar: “Quae postea Seleucia dicta est, Hhedenis metropolis.” (Biblia Sacra, London, 1585, note on 2 Kings 19. 12.) Telta. Moscovia (2) 8. 483. (See also Comgoscoi.) An unidentified river of Siberia, probably the Tom, a tributary of the Ob. “Above Narim as men travaile toward the East, they meete with the River Telta; on the banke whereof they have builded a Castle, named Comgof-scoi.” 303