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PELION

Volume 16 · 82 words · 1823 Edition

(Diodorus Siculus, &c.), Pelios, mons understood, (Mela, Virgil, Horace, Scenca), a mountain of Thessaly near Ossa, and hanging over the Sinus Pelasgiacus, or Pegasicus; 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 pelios, which none but himself could wield, (Homer). Diecarchus, Aristotle's scholar, found this mountain 1250 paces higher than any other of Thessaly, (Pliny). Pelius, Cicero; Peliacus, (Catullus), the epithet.