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|lshtext=<b>Lĕlĕges</b>: um, m., = Λέλεγες,<br /><b>I</b> a Pelasgic [[tribe]] [[who]] lived [[scattered]] [[over]] [[several]] parts of [[Asia]] Minor and [[Greece]] (in [[Caria]], lonia, [[Mysia]], [[Thessaly]], [[Locris]], [[Megara]]), Plin. 4, 7, 12, § 27; 5, 30, 33, § 127; Verg. A. 8, 725; Ov. M. 9, 645; Luc. 6, 383.—In sing.: hac Ixionides, [[illa]] Troezenius [[heros]] parte Lelex, the Lelegeian, as a [[proper]] [[name]], Ov. M. 8, 566.—<br /><b>II</b> Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lĕ-lĕgēïus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the [[Leleges]], Lelegeian: litora, i. e. the [[coast]] of [[Megara]], Ov. M. 8, 8: [[moenia]], i. e. [[Megara]], id. ib. 7, 443.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Lĕlĕgēis, ĭdis, adj., Lelegeian, Asiatic: nymphae Lelegeides, Ov. M. 9, 651.—Subst., an [[early]] [[name]] of [[Miletus]], [[because]] [[formerly]] [[inhabited]] by the [[Leleges]], Plin. 5, 29, 31, § 112.
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