Tenes

, a son of ♦ Cycnus and Proclea. He was exposed on the sea, on the coast of Troas, by his father, who credulously believed his wife Philonome, who had fallen in love with Cycnus, and accused him of attempts upon her virtue, when he refused to gratify her pa ion. Tenes arrived in Leucophrys, which he called Tenedos, and of which he became the sovereign. Some time after ♦ Cycnus discovered the guilt of his wife Philonome, and as he wished to be reconciled to his son whom he had so gro ly injured, he went to Tenedos. But when he had tied his ship to the shore, Tenes cut off the cable with a hatchet, and suffered his father’s ship to be to ed about in the sea. From this circumstance the hatchet of Tenes is become proverbial to intimate a resentment that cannot be pacified. Some, however, suppose that the proverb arose from the severity of a law made by a king of Tenedos against adultery, by which the guilty were both put to death by a hatchet. The hatchet of Tenes was carefully preserved at Tenedos, and afterwards deposited by Periclytus son of Eutymachus, in the temple of Delphi, where it was still seen in the age of Pausanias. Tenes, as some suppose, was killed by Achilles, as he defended his country against the Greeks, and he received divine honours after death. His statue at Tenedos was carried away by Verres. Strabo , bk. 13 .— Pausanias , bk. 10 , ch. 14 .――A general of 4000 mercenary Greeks sent by the Egyptians to a ist the Phœnicians. Diodorus , bk. 16 . ♦ ‘Cyncus’ replaced with ‘Cycnus’