1) A fid from the Halls of Orithena who survived the eruption of Ecba to become one of the Forty Lesser Peregrins. In his old age, he appears to have turned up on the Periklyne, though some scholars be-lieve that this must have been a son or name-sake of the Orithenan. He appears as a minor character in several of the great dialogs, most notably Uraloabus, where his timely and long-winded interruption enables Thelenes- who has been thrown back on his heels by the heavy sarcasm of his adversary to re-cover his equilibrium, change the subject, and embark upon the systematic annihilation of Sphenic thought that accounts for the last third of the dialog and culminates in the title character's public suicide. From the Peregrin phase of Kefedokhles's career, three dialogs survive, and from his years on the Periklyne, eight. Though talented, he gives the impres-sion of being insufferably smug and pedantic, whence sense 2.
(2) An insufferably smug or pedantic interlocutor.