Leleges

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Lĕlĕges: um, m., = Λέλεγες,
I 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.—
II Hence,
   A 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.—
   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.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

Lĕlĕges,¹⁶ um, m. (Λέλεγες), peuple de Locride, de Carie, de Thessalie : Virg. En. 8, 725 ; Ov. M. 9, 645 ; Plin. 4, 27 ; Luc. 6, 383 || Lĕlĕgēis, ĭdis, f., des Lélèges : Ov. M. 9, 651 || ancien nom de Milet [habitée d’abord par les Lélèges] : Plin. 5, 112 || Lĕlĕgēĭus, a, um, des Lélèges : Ov. M. 8, 8.

Latin > German (Georges)

Leleges, um, Akk. as, m. (Λέλεγες), ein pelasgischer Volksstamm, der an mehreren Orten in Kleinasien u. in Griechenland (in Thessalien, Lokris, bes. in der Gegend von Megara) zerstreut wohnte, Verg. Aen. 8, 725. Ov. met. 9, 645. Lucan. 6, 383. – Dav.: a) Lelegēis, idis, f. (Λελεγηΐς), lelegēisch, Ov. – b) Lelegēius, a, um, lelegēisch, moenia, Megara, Ov.: litora, megarische Küste, Ov.

Wikipedia EN

The Leleges (/ˈlɛlɪdʒiːz/; Greek: Λέλεγες) were an aboriginal people of the Aegean region, before the Greeks arrived. They were distinct from another pre-Hellenic people of the region, the Pelasgians. The exact areas to which they were native are uncertain, since they were apparently pre-literate and the only references to them are in ancient Greek sources. These references are casual and (it is alleged) sometimes fictitious. Likewise, little is known about the language of the Leleges.

Many Greek authors link the Leleges to the Carians of south-west Anatolia. Homer names the Leleges among the Trojan allies alongside the Carians, Pelasgians, Paeonians and Gaucones.

It is thought that the name Leleges is an exonym, in a long-extinct language, rather than an endonym (or autonym). That is, during the Bronze Age the word lulahi apparently meaning "strangers" was used in the Luwian language and in other Anatolian languages. For example, in a Hittite cuneiform inscription, priests and temple servants are directed to avoid conversing with lulahi and foreign merchants. According to the suggestion of Vitaly Shevoroshkin, an attempt to transliterate lulahi into Greek might result in leleges.

Late traditions reported in Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke, and by Pausanias, derive the name from an eponymous king Lelex; a comparable etymology, memorializing a legendary founder, is provided by Greek mythographers for virtually every tribe of Hellenes: "Lelex and the Leleges, whatever their historical significance, have acted as a blank sheet on which to draw Lakonia and all it means," observes Ken Dowden.