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πελειάς , άδος, , = foreg. 1, mostly in pl. , Il.11.634, Hdt.2.55, A. Supp.223, E.Andr. 1140, etc. ;
A.τρήρωσι πελειάσιν . . ὁμοῖαιIl.5.778 ; Ep. dat. “πεληϊάδεσσιOpp. C.1.351 : in sg. , Hdt. l. c., S. OC 1081 (lyr.) : distd. from περιστερά, Arist. HA 544b2, 597b3 ; but used for περιστερά by Sophr. ap. Ath.9.394d, Hp. Mul.2.110, 189.
2. an Indian fruitpigeon, Crocopus chlorogaster, Ael. NA 16.2.
II. = foreg. 11, Hdt. 2.55,57, S. Tr.172.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 223
    • Euripides, Andromache, 1140
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.55
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.634
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 1
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1081
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 172
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.778
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 11
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 16.2
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