He is mentioned by Emperor Claudius in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, but few or no other records of him have survived to the present day.
The word, or, more accurately, the term "telegenius" is itself a combination of two words: tele (from the Greek τηλε, tele meaning "distant") and genius (from the Latin geniālis, a derivative of genius, which originally meant "of generation and birth".
At Book V, Claudius, Chapter LX, Suetonius quotes the Emperor's use of figures of speech.
[3] Rolfe himself wrote that his text is based upon a manuscript written either in rustic capitals or uncials, with a provenance dating from 884 AD, the "Fulda Codex".
This evidence supports the position that Rolfe, telegeniously, but incorrectly attempted to guess at Suetonius' meaning.