Teucer

, a king of Phrygia, son of the Scamander by Ida. According to some authors he was the first who introduced among his subjects the worship of Cybele, and the dances of the Corybantes. The country where he reigned was from him called Teucria , and his subjects Teucri . His daughter Batea married Dardanus, a Samothracian prince, who succeeded him in the government of Teucria. Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 12 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 3 , li. 108 .――A son of Telamon king of Salamis, by Hesione the daughter of Laomedon. He was one of Helen’s suitors, and accordingly accompanied the Greeks to the Trojan war, where he signalized himself by his valour and intrepidity. It is said that his father refused to receive him into his kingdom, because he had left the death of his brother Ajax unrevenged. This severity of the father did not dishearten the son; he left Salamis, and retired to Cyprus, where, with the a istance of Belus king of Sidon, he built a town, which he called Salamis, after his native country. He attempted, to no purpose, to recover the island of Salamis after his father’s death. He built a temple to Jupiter in Cyprus, on which a man was annually sacrificed till the reign of the An to nines. Some suppose that Teucer did not return to Cyprus, but that, according to a le received opinion, he went to settle in Spain, where new Carthage was afterwards built, and thence into Galatia. Homer , Iliad , bk. 1 , li. 281 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 1 , li. 623 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 3 , ch. 12 .— Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 29 .— Justin , bk. 44 , ch. 3 .— Paterculus , bk. 1 , ch. 1 .――One of the servants of Phalaris of Agrigentum.