Crossword-Solution: TELEGONY 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

THE TELEGONY Fragment #1—Proclus, Chrestomathia, ii: After the _Returns_ comes the _Odyssey_ of Homer, and then the _Telegony_ in two books by Eugammon of Cyrene, which contain the following matters.

Telegony.--The influence of the paternal seed on the physical and mental constitution of the child is well known.

After citing the foregoing examples, Blaikie directs his attention to man, and makes the following interesting remarks:-- "We might expect from the foregoing account of telegony amongst animals that whenever a black woman had a child to a white man, and then married a black man, her subsequent children would not be entirely black.

Unfortunately for the proof of telegony, it is very rare that a white woman does marry a black man, and then have a white as second husband; nevertheless, we have a fair number of recorded instances of dark-colored children being born in the above way of white parents.

Austin Flint, in 'A Text-book of Human Physiology,' mentioned this fact, and when asked about it said: 'He had never heard the statement questioned.' "But it is not only in relation to color that we find telegony to have been noticed in the human subject.