Pelias
ἰχθύς ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς ὄζειν ἄρχεται → the fish stinks from the head, a fish rots from the head down, the fish rots from the head down, fish begin to stink at the head, the fish stinks first at the head, corruption starts at the top, the rot starts at the top
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Πελίας, -ου, ὁ.
Daughters of Pelias: V. Πελιάδες κόραι, αἱ, or Πελιάδες, αἱ alone.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Pĕlĭas: ădis, f.
I Of or belonging to Pelias; v. 2. Pelias fin.—
II Pēlĭas, ădis, f., of or belonging to Pelion; v. Pelion, C.
Pĕlĭas: ae (nom. Pelia, Sen. Med. 201; 276), m., = Πελίας,
I a king of Thessaly, son of Neptune and the nymph Tyro, brother of Neleus, half-brother of Æson, and father of Acastus. Being appointed by Æson guardian to his son Jason, he sought, when Jason grew up, to rid himself of the charge by inciting him to join the Argonautic expedition. After Jason's return Pelias was slain by his own daughters, at the artful instigation of Medea, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 80; Hyg. Fab. 24; Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34 (Trag. v. 286 Vahl.); id. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 217 (id. v. 313 ib.); Ov. M. 7, 304; Val. Fl. 1, 22 et saep.—Hence, Pĕlĭădes, the daughters of Pelias, who, upon Medea's promise to restore their father's youth, cut him to pieces, and boiled him in a caldron, Phaedr. 4, 7, 16; cf. Hyg. Fab. 24.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) Pēlĭăs,¹⁴ ădis, f., du mont Pélion : [en parl. du navire Argo fait avec le bois du mont Pélion, cf. Enn. Scen. 276 ] Stat. Th. 5, 355
