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‖ Telamon Arch.|ˈtɛləmən|
Pl. Telamones |tɛləˈməʊniːz|.
[In pl. a. L. telamōnes, = Gr. τελαµῶνες, pl. of τελαµών name of a hero in mythology.]
A figure of a man used as a column to support an entablature or other structure: = Atlas n.1 1 b.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Telamones,..the Images of Men that seem'd to bear up the Out-jettings of Cornishes in the Roman Buildings, which among the Greeks were call'd Atlantes. 1797Holcroft Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxiv. 12 Male statues of this kind were called..Telamones. 1882Fennell tr. Michaelis' Anc. Marb. Gt. Brit. 594 A kneeling youth..serves as a Telamon or Atlas, bearing on his head and his fore-arms a large, low cup, which forms the top of the whole candelabrum. |