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PELION

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(Diodorus Siculus, &c.), Pelios, most understood, (Mela, Virgil, Horace, Seneca), a moun- tain of Thessaly near Ossa, and hanging over the Sinus Pelagius or Pegaeus; 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 him- self could wield, (Homer). Dicearchus, Aristotle's scholar, found this mountain 1250 paces higher than any other of Thessaly, (Pliny). Pelias, Cicero; Peliacus, (Catullus), the epithet.