- Peleus
- Pēleus, ĕi and ĕos ( 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., = Pêleus, 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:B.
facta,
Sil. 13, 803: virgo, of Achilles ( Briseis ), Stat. Achill. 2, 210. —Pēlīdes, ae, m.1.The son of Peleus, i. e. Achilles, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 5; Ov. H. 8, 83:2.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.—Also, the son of Achilles:Neoptolemus,
Verg. A. 2, 263.
Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary, 1879. - Revised, Enlarged, and in Great Part Rewritten. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and Charles Short. 2011.