Pĕlĭas | Pēlĭas, ădis (noun F.f) :
* Of or belonging to Pelias; v. 2. Pelias fin.
* Of or belonging to Pelion; v. Pelion, C.

Pĕlĭas | Pĕlĭădes (noun M) : (nom. Pelia, Sen. Med. 201; 276), , = Πελίας
* A king of Thessaly, son of Neptune and the nymph Tyro, brother of Neleus, half-brother of Aeson, and father of Acastus. Being appointed by Aeson guardian to his son Jason, he sought, when Jason grew up, to rid himself of the charge by inciting him to join the Argonautic expedition. After Jason's return Pelias was slain by his own daughters, at the artful instigation of Medea, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 80; Hyg. Fab. 24; Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34 (Trag. v. 286 Vahl.); id. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 217 (id. v. 313 ib.); Ov. M. 7, 304; Val. Fl. 1, 22 et saep.—Hence, , the daughters of Pelias, who, upon Medea's promise to restore their father's youth, cut him to pieces, and boiled him in a caldron, Phaedr. 4, 7, 16; cf. Hyg. Fab. 24.