And Simmias, in his Gorgo, says—
The swiftest ministers of air came near,
The quivering peleiades.
And Posidippus, in his Asopia, says—
Nor do the evening cool πέλειαι set.
But Lamprocles the Dithyrambic poet has also expressly and poetically said that the word πελειάδες is in every sense synonymous with περιστεραὶ, in the following lines—
And now you have your home in heaven,
Showing your title with the winged doves.
And the author of the poem called Astronomy, which is attributed to Hesiod, always calls the Pleiades Πελειάδες, saying—
Which mortals call Peleiades.
And in another place he says—
And now the Peleiades of winter set.