I.“Elidem,” Nep. Alcib. 4, 4; abl. usually Elide; “but Eli,” Cic. N. D. 3, 23, 59; id. Fam. 13, 26, 2), f., = Η῏λις; also Ālis , Alidis = Dor. Ἀλις (Plaut. Capt. prol. 9, 26, 31; cf. “Aleus,” id. ib. 27), the most westerly district of the Peloponnesus, with a capital of the same name, in the vicinity of which Olympia was situated, Mel. 2, 3, 4; Plin. 4, 6, 10, § 22; Cic. Div. 1, 41; Verg. A. 3, 694; 6, 588; Ov. M. 9, 187; Val. Fl. 1, 389 et saep.—Of the capital, Nep. Alcib. 4, 4; Ov. M. 12, 550.—
II. Derivv.
A. Ēlēus , a, um, adj., Elean; and in the poets also for Olympian: “flumen,” i. e. the Alphēus, Ov. M. 5, 576; called also Eleus amnis, Poëta ap. Sen. Q. N. 3, 1: “campus,” i. e. Olympia, Verg. G. 3, 202; cf.: “carcer,” Tib. 1, 4, 33; Ov. H. 18, 166: “quadriga,” Prop. 3, 9, 17 (4, 8, 17 M.): “palma,” Hor. C. 4, 2, 17: “Juppiter,” Prop. 3, 2, 20 (4, 1, 60 M.); “called also Eleus parens,” Val. Fl. 4, 227: “lustra,” Stat. S. 2, 6, 72.—In plur. subst.: Ēlēi , ōrum, m., the inhabitants of Elis, Plin. 10, 28, 40, § 175.—
