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πελάζω , Il.5.766, etc.: fut. -άσω E.El.1332 (lyr.), etc.; Att.
A.“πελῶ” A.Pr.284 (anap.), S.Ph.1150 (lyr., codd.), OC1060 (lyr.), El.497 (lyr.) : aor. “ἐπέλα^σα” E.Hel.671 (lyr.) ; Ep. “πέλασα” Il.12.194 ; Ep. and Lyr. “ἐπέλασσα” 21.93, “πέλασσα” 13.1, Pi.P.4.227 :—Med., aor. opt. (trans.) “πελασαίατο” Il.17.341 ; inf. “πελάσασθαι” Emp.133 :—Pass., aor. ἐπελάσθην, Ep. 3pl. “πέλασθεν” Il.12.420, inf. “πελασθῆναι” S.OT 213 (lyr.) ; Ep. aor. Pass. “ἔπλητο” Hes. Th.193, “ἔπληντο” Il.4.449, etc., “πλῆτο” 14.438, πλῆντο ib.468 ; later ἐπλάθην [α_] A.Pr.897 (lyr.), E. Tr.203(lyr.), etc. : pf. Pass. “πέπλημαι” AP5.46（Rufin.) ; 3pl.“πεπλήαται” Semon.31 A (fort. πεπλέαται) ; part. “πεπλημένος” Od.12.108 ; cf. πελάω, πελάθω, πλάθω : (πέλας) :
A. intr., approach, draw near, c. dat., “πέλασεν νήεσσι” Il.12.112 ; “ὅς τις ἀϊδρείῃ πελάσῃ” Od.12.41 ; “ἐὸν . . ἐόντι πελάζει” Parm.8.25 ; τούτοις σὺ μὴ π. A.Pr.807, cf. S.Ph.301, etc.: rarely in Prose, “π. πολεμίοισι” Hdt.9.74 ; “θηρίοις” X.Cyr.1.4.7, cf. 3.2.10, An.4.2.3 ; “τῷ φθινοπώρῳ” Hp.Prog.24 : prov., ὅμοιον ὁμοίῳ ἀεὶ πελάζει like draws to like , Pl. Smp.195b.
2. less freq. c. gen., ἐπὴν [ἡ γυνὴ] τόκου π. Hp.Mul. 1.34 ; πάρα . . πελάσαι φάος . . νεῶν light may come near the ships, S. Aj.709 (lyr.) ; “εἴρξω πελάζειν [σῆς πάτρας]” Id.Ph.1407 (but σῆς πάτρας shd. be deleted) ; “π. πηγῆς” Call.Ap.88 (nisi leg. πηγῇσι）“ ; π. τῆς πόλεως” Th.2.77, Plb.21.6.3 ; also “μὴ πελάσητ᾽ ὄμματος ἐγγύς” E.Med.101 (anap.).
3. with a Prep., πρὸς τοῖχον π. Hes.Op. 732 ; “ἐς τὸν ἀριθμόν” Hdt.2.19 ; [τὸ ὕδωρ] ἐς τὸ θερμὸν π. gets hotter, Id.4.181 ; “ἐς τούσδε τόπους” S.OC1761 (anap.) ; εἰς ὄψιν, ἐς σὸν βλέφαρον, E.IT1212, El.1332 (anap.) ; “ἐπί τινος” Orph.A.888 ; “πρὸς ἀλλήλας” Plu.2.564b.
4. c. acc. loci, “δῶμα πελάζει” E.Andr.1167 (anap.) ; elsewh. dub., S.OC1060 (fort. εἰς νομόν), Ph.1150 (but φυγᾷ μ᾽ οὐκέτι . . πελᾶτ᾽ shd. be taken in trans. sense, will no more draw me after you).
5. abs., X.Cyr.7.1.48.
II. approach (in marriage), “ματρὶ τεᾷ πελάσαις” Pi.N.10.81 ; “ἐπὶ παρθενικῆς λέχος” AP5.301 (Agath.).
B. causal, only in Poets, bring near or to, freq. in Hom. (Hes. only Op.431), both of persons and things, [“νέας] Κρήτῃ ἐπέλασσεν” Od.3.291, cf. 300 ; “με . . γαίῃ Θεσπρωτῶν πέλασεν μέγα κῦμα” 14.315 ; “τοὺς δ᾽ Ἰθάκῃ ἐπέλασσε φέρων ἄνεμος” 15.482 ; “π. τινὰ Ἀχιλῆϊ” Il.24.154, cf. 2.744, etc.; Ζεὺς . . Ἕκτορα νηυσὶ π. let him approach the ships, 13.1 ; νευρὴν μὲν μαζῷ πέλασεν τόξῳ δὲ σίδηρον brought the string up to his breast, etc., of one drawing a bow, 4.123 ; ἐπέλασσα θαλάσσῃ στῆθος, in swimming, Od.14.350 ; πάντας . . πέλασε χθονί brought them to earth, Il.8.277 ; “οὔδει τινὰ πελάσσαι” 23.719, etc.; “ἱστὸν δ᾽ ἱστοδόκῃ πέλασαν” 1.434 ; βόας ζεύγλᾳ π. Pi.P.4.227 ; δεσμοῖς τινὰ π. A.Pr.155 (anap.) ; “βρόχῳ δέρην” E.Alc.230 (lyr.) ; μὴ πέλαζε μητρί (sc. τέκνα) Id.Med.91 ; “κορώνῃ νευρειήν” Theoc.25.212 ; ἐπεί ῤ̔ ἐπέλασσέ γε δαίμων brought [him so far], Il.15.418, cf. 21.93 ; γόμφοισιν πελάσας [γύην] when he has fixed [the plough-tree to the pole] with nails, Hes.Op.431 : metaph., ἑ . . κακῇς ὀδύνῃσι π. bring him into pain, Il.5.766 ; ἐμὲ . . κράτει πέλασον endue me with might, Pi. O.1.78 ; Βορέᾳ σῶμα π. exposing it . . , Ar.Av.1399 (anap.) ; ἔπος ἐρέω, ἀδάμαντι πελάσσας (sc. αὐτό) having made it firm as adamant, Orac. ap. Hdt.7.141.
2. folld. by a Prep., “με . . νῆσον ἐς Ὠγυγίην πέλασαν θεοί” Od. 7.254 ; “κτήματα δ᾽ ἐν σπήεσσι πελάσσατε” 10.404, cf. 424 ; also “δεῦρο π. τινά” 5.111 ; “οὖδάσδε πελάζειν τινά” 10.440.
3. Med., bring near to oneself, οὐκ ἔστιν πελάσασθαι ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσιν ἐφικτόν Emp.l.c.
C. Pass., like the intr. Act., come nigh, approach, etc., c. dat., “ἀσπίδες . . ἔπληντ᾽ ἀλλήλῃσι” Il.4.449 ; πλῆτο χθονί he came near (i. e. sank to) earth, 14.438 ; οὔδεϊ πλῆντο ib.468 ; “σκοπέλῳ πεπλημένος” Od. 12.108 : abs., ἐπεὶ τὰ πρῶτα πέλασθεν (sc. τείχει) Il.12.420, cf. A.Th. 144 (lyr.).
2. rarely c. gen., “Χρύσης πελασθεὶς φύλακος” S.Ph. 1327.
3. folld. by a Prep., “πελασθῆναι ἐπὶ τὸν θεόν” Id.OT213 (lyr.).
II. approach or wed, of a woman, “μηδὲ πλαθείην γαμέτᾳ” A.Pr.897 (lyr.), cf. E.Andr.25 ; v. supr. A. 11.
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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