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πέλα^ς , Adv.
A.near, hard by, c. gen. , which commonly stands before “π. , Τηλεμάχου π. ἵστατο” Od.15.257 ; Νείλου π. A. Supp.308, cf. Ag. 1038, 1671 ; καὶ τάδ᾽ ἀγχόνης π. E. Heracl.246, cf. HF1109 ; also before its case, “π. τῆς Κασταλίης” Hdt.8.39, cf. 138 ; “αὕτη π. σοῦ” S.El. 1474 ; separated from its case, Id.Ant.580.
2. c. dat., π. ἐμβόλῳ, σκάπτῳ π., Pi. O.7.18, N.11.4 ; σοὶ π. A. Supp.208, cf. Fr.102.
3. abs. , “χριμφθεὶς πέλας” Od.10.516 ; π. στείχειν, παρεῖναι, παραστατεῖν, E. Or.877, S.Aj.83, A. Th.669.
II. οἱ π. (sc. ὄντες) one's neighbours, Democr.293, Antipho Soph.58, Hdt.1.97, Critias 15.6 D. , Th. 1.69, 4.78,92, Arist. EN1169a14, etc. ; one's fellow creatures, E. Heracl. 2, Hipp.441 ; τὰ τῶν πέλας κακά, opp. τὰ οἰκήϊα, Hdt.7.152 : sg. , ὁ π. one's neighbour, Id.3.142, Th.1.32 ; “πᾶς τις αὑτὸν τοῦ π. μᾶλλον φιλεῖ” E. Med.86 ; cf. πλησίον.
III. Sup. πελαστάτω nearest, Hp. Loc. Hom. 12, 45, Mul.1.66 : a Sup. Adj. πελάστατος, η, ον, IG14.352 ii65 (Halaesa).
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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