διὰ νήσων τὸν πλόον ἐποιεῦντο → they kept sailing through the islands
pĕlĕcīnos: i, m., = πελεκῖνος>,I hatchetvetch, a weed that grows among lentils, Plin. 18, 17, 44, § 155.—Collat. form pĕlĕcīna, Not. Tir. p. 168.