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|lshtext=<b>pĕlăgus</b>: i (Gr. plur. pelagē, Lucr. 5, 35; 6, 619), n., = [[πέλαγος]]>,<br /><b>I</b> the [[sea]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]] for Lat. [[mare]]): fervit aestu [[pelagus]], Pac. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 39, 157: [[pelagus]] remis petere coeperunt, Auct. B. Hisp. 40: in pelago, Lucr. 4, 432: [[pelagus]] tenuere rates, the [[open]] [[sea]], the [[main]]. Verg. A. 5, 8: pelago Danaūm insidias Praecipitare, id. ib. 2, 36: pelago [[dare]] [[vela]] patenti, id. G. 2, 41; 1, 142: qui fragilem truci Commisit pelago ratem, Hor. C. 1, 3, 11: pelago terrāque pericula [[passus]], Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 7: lustrare [[pelagus]], Val. Fl. 3, 608; Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 35; Juv. 1, 135; 12, 17: saeviente pelago, Tac. A. 15, 46: vortices pelagi, Just. 4, 1, 13: nantes [[lubrico]] pelagi, Val. Max. 3, 2, 10: [[pelagus]] Ciliciae, Vulg. Act. 27, 5.— Poet., a [[mass]] of [[water]], [[like]] the [[sea]]: pelago premit arva sonanti, Verg. A. 1, 246.—<br /><b>II</b> Fig., for an [[immense]] [[mass]] or [[extent]]: [[quam]] pauca excepta verba ex pelago sermonis pulli [[minus]] trita afferant, the [[ocean]] of [[vulgar]] [[language]], Varr. L. L. 9, 26, § 33: Herodiani scriptorum [[pelagus]], Prisc. Ep. ad Jul. 4; cf. “a [[sea]] of troubles,” Shaksp.