Pleias
Pleias, a Pleiad, one of the seven stars
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Pleiadas Proper-name noun: feminine accusative plural of Pleias
Plēïas and Plējas (dissyl.）, (Plī̆as), ădis, f., = Πληϊάς and Πλειάς.
- One of the Seven Stars, a Pleiad; usually in plur.: Pleiades (Pliades) = Πλειάδες, the constellation of the Seven Stars, the Pleiades or Pleiads (pure Lat. Vergiliae), acc. to the myth, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione (Electra, Halcyone, Celaeno, Maia, Sterope, Taygete, and Merope): Pleïas enixa est, Ov. M. 1, 670: Plias, Stat. S. 1, 6, 22; Ov. F. 3, 105: Plĭadum nivosum Sidus, Stat. S. 1, 3, 95.—
- II Poet., transf., a storm or rain, Val. Fl. 4, 268; 2, 405: Pliada movere, to cause the Pleiads to rise, id. 2, 357.
Atlantidas quas Graecorum traditio Pliadas [v. l.. Pliades ] ‥ nuncupaverat
per ~ades ‥ quarum una Maja est
Pliadis vel Arcturi sidera
septem latet lampadibus / Pliadis pulchra copula / ab Athlantis prosapia
veris et autumni, cum Pliades media fere die vel nocte oriuntur et occidunt, ponentes ingressum
Pliadas,sibunsterri
~ades quasi pluviades stelle, sc. quibus apparentibus pluvie inundant
Pliadarum stelle cum saliunt
ipso nunc norunt Pleyades apparere
signum ‥ oppositum Scorpioni est Taurus, in quo sunt ille septem stelle que dicuntur ~ades, et dicuntur Gallicela pucenere
Plēïas or Plēas (Plīas) adis, f
- , Πληϊάςor Πλειάς, a Pleiad, one of the seven stars, O.— Plur, the Pleiades, Pleiads, V., H., O.
Pleias
(πλειάς, “a group of seven stars”). The name given by the Alexandrian critics to a group of seven tragic poets, who wrote at Alexandria under Ptolemy Philadelphus in the first half of the third century B.C. Their names were: Alexander Aetolus, Philiscus, Sositheus, Homerus, Aeantides, Sosiphanes, and Lycophron. See Canon Alexandrinus.