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πελα^γ-ίζω , (πέλαγος)
A.form a sea or lake, of a river that has overflowed, “ἐώθεε ὁ ποταμὸς ἀνὰ τὸ πεδίον πᾶν πελαγίζειν” Hdt.1.184 ; “λίμνη πελαγίζουσα” Str.5.3.12 ; of places, to be flooded, under water, “ἐπεὰν τὰ πεδία πελαγίσῃ” Hdt.2.92, cf. Str.17.1.4.
2. of islands, lie out in the open sea, Id.10.2.19.
3. metaph., in Rhet., to be verbose, exuberant, Phld. Rh.1.239, 240 S., cj. in D.H.Is.14 ; ἀλαζονεύεσθαι, ψεύδεσθαι μεγάλα, Hsch.
4. have a chattering of the teeth, Id.
II. trans., = πελαγόω, flood, Jul.Or.1.27b.
III. cross the open sea, X. Oec.21.3, Hyp.Fr.262 ; “πλοίῳ” Posidon.28 J.; opp. παρὰ γῆν πλεῖν, Str.1.3.2 ; to be on the high sea, Ach.Tat.2.32 :—Med., Charito 8.6.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.184
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.92
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.1.4
    • Strabo, Geography, 1.3.2
    • Strabo, Geography, 5.3.12
    • Strabo, Geography, 10.2.19
    • Xenophon, Economics, 21.3
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isaeo, 14
    • Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophon, 2.32
    • Chariton, De Chaerea et Callirhoe, 8.6
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