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πέλα^γ-ος , εος, τό, gen. pl.
A.“πελαγέων” Hdt.4.85, S.Aj.702 (lyr.), “πελαγῶν” Th.4.24 ; Ep. dat. πελάγεσσι (v. infr.) :—the sea, esp. high sea, open sea, “π. μέγα” Il.14.16, Od.3.179, etc.; “ἐν πελάγεϊ ἀναπεπταμένῳ” Hdt.8.60.ά ; διὰ πελάγους out at sea, opp. παρὰ γῆν, Th.6.13 : freq. coupled with other words denoting sea, “ἁλὸς ἐν πελάγεσσιν” Od.5.335 ; “π. θαλάσσης” A.R.2.608 ; π. πόντιον, πόντου π., Pi.O.7.56, Fr.235 ; ἅλιον π. E.Hec.938 (lyr.).
2. of parts of the sea (θάλασσα), freq. with geographical epith., Αἰγαῖον π. A.Ag.659, etc., cf. Hdt.4.85 (“π. Αἰγαίας ἁλός” E.Tr.88, Men.Pk.379) ; “Ἰκαρίων ὑπὲρ πελαγέων” S.Aj.702(lyr.), cf. Luc.Icar.3 ; “ἐκ μεγάλων πελαγῶν τοῦ τε Τυρσηνικοῦ καὶ τοῦ Σικελικοῦ” Th.4.24.
3. flooded plain, γίνεται π. Hdt.2.97, cf. 3.117.
II. metaph., of any vast quantity, πλούτου π. Pi.Fr.218 ; κακῶν π. a 'sea of troubles', A.Pers.433 ; “π. ἀτηρᾶς δύης” Id.Pr.746 ; ἄτης ἄβυσσον π. Id.Supp.470 ; “κακῶν π. εἰσορῶ τοσοῦτον ὥστε μήποτ᾽ ἐκνεῦσαι” E.Hipp.822(lyr.) ; “ἀληθινὸν εἰς π. αὑτὸν ἐμβαλεῖς . . πραγμάτων” Men.65.6 ; “φεύγειν εἰς τὸ π. τῶν λόγων” Pl.Prt. 338a ; “φανήσεται μακρὸν τὸ δεῦρο π. οὐδὲ πλώσιμον” S.OC663 ; of great difficulties, μέγ᾽ ἄρα π. ἐλαχέτην τι ib.1746 (lyr.).
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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