τελήεις

A. = τέλειος, perfect, complete, of victims, in Il. and Od. always τεληέσσας ἑκατόμβας, i.e. hecatombs of full tale or number, or of full-grown beasts, or of beasts without blemish, Il. 1.315, 2.306, Od. 4.352, 17.50, al.; τελήεντες οἰωνοί birds of sure augury, as if they brought about what they betokened, opp. μαψιλόγοι, h.Merc. 544 (as perhaps τελειότατος πετεηνῶν, cf. τέλειος 1.1a): in this sense Tyrt. 4.2 has τελέεντ’ ἔπεα sure predictions, from the form τελέεις.

II. Ὠκεανοῖο τελήεντος ποταμοῖο prob. the river in which all others end, or ending in itself, ever-circling, Hes. Th. 242,959.