Pelasgi
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of Pelasgi
< Latin Pelasgī < Greek Pelasgoí
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This accounts for the statement of Herodotus that the Pelasgi came from Lydia in Asia Minor, without our being obliged to assume that they came by sea,—a fact highly improbable.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
The occurrence is said to have taken place in the earliest times of the Tyrrhenian dominion of the sea, during the contest between the Tyrrhenian Pelasgi and the Phœnicians.
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Warburton
They are a brave, haughty, liberty-loving, but turbulent people, whom some maintain to be the descendants of the ancient Pelasgi, who originally occupied Greece.
From Turkey Peeps at Many Lands by Julius R. Van Millingen
In Arcadia and Boeotia the Pelasgi declared that their old deities were born.
From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by James Freeman Clarke
Pelasgi had a Deity whose name it was not permitted to pronounce, 621-u.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
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