PE′LEUS. A king of Thessaly, who married Thetis, one of the Nereids.
PE′LIAS. A son of Neptune and Tyro. He usurped the throne of Cretheus,
which Jason was persuaded to relinquish and take the command of the
Argonautic expedition. On the return of Jason, Medea, the sorceress,
undertook to restore Pelias to youth, but required that the body should
first be cut up and put in a caldron of boiling water. When this
had been done, Medea refused to fulfil her promise. Pelias had four
daughters, who were called the Peliades.
PE′LIAS was the name of the spear of Achilles, which was so large that
none could wield it but the hero himself.
PE′LION. A well-wooded mountain, famous for the wars between the giants
and the gods, and as the abode of the Centaurs, who were expelled by
the Lapithæ.
“The gods they challenge, and affect the skies,
Heaved on Olympus tottering Ossa stood;
On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.”