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PELASGIA

Volume 8 · 34 words · 1778 Edition

(Pliny); the ancient name of Le- bos; so called from the Pelasgi, its first inhabitants, (Diodorus Siculus). Also the ancient name of Pe- lonneus, from Pelagius, a native of the country, (Nicolaus Damascenus, Ephorus).