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Peleus

a king of Thessaly

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Where it lives

Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
De Arte Poetica liber 1 · 3.24/10k
Achilleis 2 · 2.78/10k
Octavia 1 · 1.91/10k
Metamorphoses 13 · 1.67/10k
Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Argonautica 4 · 1.08/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.78/10k
Fasti 2 · 0.64/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

Pēleus — Lewis & Short

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., = *phleu/s, 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.

In the wild

Peleus Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.260
Peleus Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.11.5
Peleus Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.350
Peleus Appendix Vergiliana, Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 297
Peleus Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.266
Peleus Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.244

6 of 32 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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