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Pēleus , ĕi and ĕos (
I.gen. Peleos, Val. Fl. 1, 131; acc. Pelea, Hor. C. 3, 7, 17; voc. Peleu, Cat. 64, 26; Hor. A. P. 104; abl. Peleo, Cic. de Or. 3, 15, 57), m., = Πηλεύς, a king of Thessaly, son of Æacus, brother of Telamon, half-brother of Phocus, husband of Thetis, father of Achilles, and a sharer in the expedition of the Argonauts, Hyg. Fab. 14; Ov. M. 11, 221; 12, 365 sqq.; Cat. 64, 19; Hor. A. P. 96; Val. Fl. 1, 131.— Hence,
A. Pēlēïus , a, um, adj., Peleian, poet. for Achillean: “facta,” Sil. 13, 803: virgo, of Achilles (Briseis), Stat. Achill. 2, 210. —
B. Pēlīdes , ae, m.
1. The son of Peleus, i. e. Achilles, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 5; Ov. H. 8, 83: “Pelidae currus,” Verg. A. 12, 350; 2, 548; 5, 808; Hor. C. 1, 6, 6: “lites Inter Peliden et inter Atriden,” id. Ep. 1, 2, 12; Ov. M. 12, 605; Juv. 3, 280.—
2. Also, the son of Achilles: “Neoptolemus,” Verg. A. 2, 263.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 11.221
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.605
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.350
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.263
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 104
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    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.9
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.15
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 1.131
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