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Πελασγοί (Pelasgoi)

Πελασγοί is an Ancient Greek form of Πελασγός, meaning “Pelasgian — one of the pre-Greek peoples of Greece; also a mythical ancestor”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 45 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 15.142: οὐ Πελοπηιάδαι τε καὶ Ἄργεος ἄκρα Πελασγοί·

Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes 8: … εῦσαι καὶ γῆς τυχόντας ἀλλαχόσε καὶ πόλεως ἀποίκους Λακεδαιμονίων καὶ συγγενεῖς νομίζεσθαι. ταῦτʼ ἔπραττον οἱ Πελασγοὶ Πόλλιν ἡγεμόνα καὶ Δελφὸν καὶ Κραταΐδαν Λακεδαιμονίους λαβόντες· καὶ μέρος μὲν αὐτῶν ἐν Μήλῳ κατῴκησαν· τοὺς …

All forms of Πελασγός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.