a third part of Thessaly, (Strabo); so called from a very ancient people, the Pelas- gi, called Pelagiota, (Ptolemy); who formerly, to- gether with the Æolians, occupied Thessaly, and thence that part was called Pelagium Argos; besides many other parts of Greece. Their name Pelagi, or Pelargi, denoting storks, was given them from their wandering roving life, (Strabo). The poets extend the appellation to Greeks in general. Pelagus, the epithet. Some of the inhabitants of Crete were called Pelagi, (Homer); who thus also calls the neigh- bouring people to the Cilicians in Troas. The Pelagi were originally of Arcadia, (Hesiod); but Æs- chylus makes Argos, near Mycenæ, their country. The Pelasgians were situated between Pieria and Macedo- nia to the north and west, Thessalotis to the south, and Magnesia to the east, (Strabo, Pliny).