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pĕlăgus , i (Gr. plur. pelagē, Lucr. 5, 35; 6, 619), n., = πέλαγος,
I.the sea (poet. and in post-Aug. prose for Lat. mare): fervit aestu pelagus, Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 39, 157: “pelagus remis petere coeperunt, Auct. B. Hisp. 40: in pelago,” Lucr. 4, 432: pelagus tenuere rates, the open sea, the main. Verg. A. 5, 8: “pelago Danaūm insidias Praecipitare,” id. ib. 2, 36: “pelago dare vela patenti,” id. G. 2, 41; 1, 142: “qui fragilem truci Commisit pelago ratem,” Hor. C. 1, 3, 11: “pelago terrāque pericula passus,” Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 7: “lustrare pelagus,” Val. Fl. 3, 608; Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 35; Juv. 1, 135; 12, 17: “saeviente pelago,” Tac. A. 15, 46: “vortices pelagi,” Just. 4, 1, 13: “nantes lubrico pelagi,” Val. Max. 3, 2, 10: “pelagus Ciliciae,” Vulg. Act. 27, 5.— Poet., a mass of water, like the sea: “pelago premit arva sonanti,” Verg. A. 1, 246.—
II. Fig., for an immense mass or extent: “quam pauca excepta verba ex pelago sermonis pulli minus trita afferant,” the ocean of vulgar language, Varr. L. L. 9, 26, § 33: “Herodiani scriptorum pelagus,” Prisc. Ep. ad Jul. 4; cf. “a sea of troubles,” Shaksp.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (13):
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.246
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.8
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.41
    • New Testament, Acts, 27.5
    • Tacitus, Annales, 15.46
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 3.39
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.432
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.35
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.619
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 9.35
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.608
    • Ovid, Tristia, 3.2
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 3.2.10
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