(Diodorus Siculus, &c.) Pelios, monte undertood, (Mela, Virgil, Horace, Seneca), a mountain of Thessaly near Olla, and hanging over the Sinus Pelaigicus, or Pagacius; its top covered with pines, the sides with oaks, (Ovid). Said also to abound in wild ash, (Val. Flaccus). From this mountain was cut the spear of Achilles, called pelias; which none but himself could wield, (Homer). Dioclearchus, Aristotle's scholar, found this mountain 1250 paces higher than any other of Thessaly, (Pliny). Pelius, Cicero; Peliacus, (Catullus), the epithet.