“Thy stumbling founder’d jade can trot as high
As any other Pegasus can fly.”
Earl of Dorset.
“To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus,
And witch the world with noble horsemanship.”
Shakespeare.
Pe′leus. A king of Thessaly, who married Thetis, one of the Nereids.
Pe′lias. A son of Neptune and Tyro. He usurped the throne of Cretheus, which Jason was persuaded to relinquish and take the command of the Argonautic expedition. On the return of Jason, Medea, the sorceress, undertook to restore Pelias to youth, but required that the body should first be cut up and put in a caldron of boiling water. When this had been done, Medea refused to fulfil her promise. Pelias had four daughters, who were called the Peliades.
Pe′lias was the name of the spear of Achilles, which was so large that none could wield it but the hero himself.
Pe′lion. A well-wooded mountain, famous for the wars between the giants and the gods, and as the abode of the Centaurs, who were expelled by the Lapithæ.