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PELASGIA

Volume 14 · 32 words · 1797 Edition

(Pliny); the ancient name of Lesbos; so called from the Pelasgi, its first inhabitants (Diodorus Siculus.) Also the ancient name of Peloponnesus, from Pelasgus, a native of the country (Nicolaus Damascenus, Euphorus).