Pelasgi
Americanplural noun
Etymology
Origin of Pelasgi
< Latin Pelasgī < Greek Pelasgoí
Example Sentences
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What this pledge was we have no means of discovering; some supposed that it was the Trojan Palladium; others, some traditional mystery brought by the Pelasgi from Samothrace.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Nuttall, Zelia
According to Pherecydes, the original inhabitants were Leleges, while according to other accounts Thessalian Pelasgi possessed the island before it became an Ionian state.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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 Warburton, George
Argolis was the eastern portion of the Peloponnesus, watered by the Saronic Gulf, whose original inhabitants were Pelasgi.
From Ancient States and Empires by Lord, John
Men say that to Silvanus erst, the God of fields and herds,600 The old Pelasgi hallowed it, and made a holy day, E'en those who in the time agone on Latin marches lay.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
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