Pleias

Latin la: Alternative forms la Plias Etymology la Plēias :der grc:Πλειάδες + 1 Pronunciation Plē.i.as Plēias Proper noun Plēias/Plēiad<3.both> f a Pleiad, one of the Seven Sisters la Ovid Metamorphoses 1 668 8 CE Nec superum rector mala tanta Phoronidos ultra ferre potest natumque vocat, quem lucida partu Pleias enixa est letoque det imperat Argum. Now the king of the gods can no longer stand Phoronis’s great sufferings, and he calls his son, born of the shining Pleiad, and orders him to kill Argus. la in the plural the Pleiades (constellation) la transferred sense poetic a storm, rain la Valerius Flaccus (poet) Valerius Flaccius Valerius Flaccus (poet)#Argonautica Argonautica 2 405 c. 90 CE Modo saeva quierunt aequora. Sic portus fugeret ratis, aspera si te Plias in adversae tenuisset litore Thraces. Declension Plēias/Plēiad<3.both> References