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πελα?́γ-ιος , α, ον, also ος, ον E.Hel.1062, 1436 :—
A.of the sea, “κλύδωνId.Hec.701 ; ἀγκάλαι Id.Hel.ll. cc. ; “πλάξAr. Ra. 1438 ; πελαγίαν ἅλα the broad sea, A.Pers.427, cf.467 ; of animals, living in the sea, E.Hipp.1276 (lyr.) ; “τῶν δὲ θαλαττίων [ζῴων] τὰ μὲν π. τὰ δὲ αἰγιαλώδηArist.HA488b7 ; opp. παράγεια, ib.602a16 ; π. ἰχθύες, opp. πρόσγειοι, ib.598a2 ; φῦκος π. Thphr.HP4.6.4 ; ἱέραξ π. PMag.Par.1.211.
2. out at sea, on the open sea, S.Tr.649(lyr.) ; of seamen or ships, “π. πλεῖνTh.8.39, cf. 101 ; π. ἐπιφανῆναι ib.44 ; “π. ἀνάγεσθαιX.HG2.1.17 ; “π. ἄνεμοιStr.3.2.5.
3. epith. of Poseidon, IG22.410.17 ; of Aphrodite, Artem.2.37 ; of Isis, Paus.2.4.6 ; θεοὶ π. Plu.2.161c.
4. near the sea, π. τόποι, opp. μεσόγειοι, Sor.1.22.
5. γῆ π., a kind of earth, Androm. ap. Gal.13.928.
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    • Aeschylus, Persians, 427
    • Aeschylus, Persians, 467
    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 1438
    • Euripides, Hecuba, 701
    • Euripides, Helen, 1062
    • Euripides, Helen, 1436
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1276
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.4.6
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 649
    • Strabo, Geography, 3.2.5
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.1.17
    • Thucydides, Histories, 8.39
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