Telemachus, the son of Ulysses and Penelope (q.v.), who an infant when his father left for Troy was a grown-up man on his return; having gone in quest of his father after his long absence found him on his return in the guise of a beggar, and whom he assisted in slaying his mother's suitors.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Tel-el-Kebir * Teleology