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Plēïas and Plējas (dissyl.), (Plī̆as), ădis, f., = Πληϊάς and Πλειάς.

  1. I. One of the Seven Stars, a Pleiad; usually in plur.: Pleiades (Pliades) = Πλειάδες, the constellation of the Seven Stars, the Pleiades or Pleiads (pure Lat. Vergiliae), acc. to the myth, the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione (Electra, Halcyone, Celaeno, Maia, Sterope, Taygete, and Merope): Pleïas enixa est, Ov. M. 1, 670: Plias, Stat. S. 1, 6, 22; Ov. F. 3, 105: Plĭadum nivosum Sidus, Stat. S. 1, 3, 95.
  2. II. Poet., transf., a storm or rain, Val. Fl. 4, 268; 2, 405: Pliada movere, to cause the Pleiads to rise, id. 2, 357.

Plias and Pliades, v. Pleias.

plĭcātĭlis, e, adj. [plico], that may be folded together or doubled up, flexible, pliable (post-Aug.): upupae crista, Plin. 10, 29, 44, § 86: naves, id. 5, 9, 10, § 59.

plĭcātrix, īcis, f. [plicator], she who folds clothes, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 101.

plĭcātūra, ae, f. [plico], a folding or doubling, a fold, plicature (post-Aug.): vestis, Plin. 7, 51, 52, § 171.

plĭcĭtus, a, um, Part., from plico.

plĭco (plĭcāvi, plĭcui, acc. to Prisc. p. 680 P.), plĭcātum and plĭcĭtum, āre, v. a. [root plic-; Gr. πλέκω; v. plecto], to fold, to lay or wind together, to fold up, double up (poet. and in post-class. prose; cf.: complico, plecto, necto, flecto), Lucr. 4, 828: quaedam plicata, id. 6, 1086: chartam, Mart. 4, 83, 7: seque in sua membra plicantem (anguem), winding or coiling himself up, Verg. A. 5, 279; Gell. 17, 9, 9: decas plena his quattuor numeris gradatim plicatis integratur, folded together, i. e. added, Mart. Cap. 7, § 734: ostiola plicabantur, Vulg. Ezech. 41, 24: et cum plicuisset librum, id. Luc. 4, 20.

Plīnĭus, i, m., Pliny, name of a Roman gens. The most celebrated are,

  1. I. C. Plinius Secundus, also called Major (the Elder), author of an encyclopedical work in 37 books, who lost his life in an eruption of Vesuvius, A. D. 79.
  2. II. His nephew, C. Plinius Caecilius, also called Junior (the Younger), author of Letters and a Pane gyric on the emperor Trajan: facundus, Mart. 10, 19, 3.
  3. III. Plinius Valerianus, a physician in the time of the emperor Constantine.
    Hence, Plīnĭānus, a, um, adj., belonging to or named after a Pling, Plinian: rasa, Plin. 15, 25, 30, § 103.

† plinthis, ĭdis, f., = πλινθίς (a square tile).

  1. I. A square; in architect., a square base, a plinth, for plinthus, Vitr. 3, 3, 2; in land-surveying, for plinthus, Hyg. Condit. Agror. p. 210 Goes.
  2. II. Plur.: plinthĭ-des, a register in the hydraulic organ, Vitr. 10, 8, 8; v. pleuritis.

† plinthĭum, ii, n., = πλίνθιον, a hollow square figure, a kind of sundial, Vitr. 9, 9.

† plinthus (-os), i, m. and f., = πλίνθος (a tile).

  1. I. In archit., the large flat member under the inferior moulding of a column, the base, plinth, Vitr. 3, 3; 4, 7, 3.
  2. II. In land-surveying, a tile-shaped figure, containing a hundred acres of land: quae centuriae nunc appellantur plinthi, id est laterculi, Hyg. Condit. Agror. p. 205 Goes.

plisĭma, sup. form for plurima; v. plurimus, under multus, III.

Plisthĕnes, is, m., = Πλεισθένης.

  1. I. The son of Pelops, brother of Atreus and Thyestes, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, who were brought up by his brother Atreus (whence they are called Atridae), Serv. Verg. A. 1, 458; acc. to others, the son of Atreus, Hyg. Fab. 86 and 97.
    Hence,
      1. 1. Plisthĕnĭdes, ae, m., = Πλεισθενίδης, a male descendant of Plisthenes, a Plisthenide: felix Plisthenide, i. e. Menelaus, Sabin. Ep. 1, 107.
      2. 2. Plisthĕ-nĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Plisthenes, Plisthenian: Plisthenius torus, i. e. of Agamemnon, Ov. R. Am. 778.
  2. II. The son of Thyestes, Sen. Thyest. 726; Hyg. Fab. 88.

Plistĭa, ae, f., a city of the Samnites, Liv. 9, 21; 22.

† plistŏlŏchĭa, ae, f.,

  1. I. a plant facilitaling parturition, Plin. 25, 8, 54, § 96 (al. pistolochia); 25, 8, 55, § 101.
  2. II. A plant, = althaea, Plin. 20, 21, 84, § 222.

Plistŏnīces, ae, m., an epithet of Apion the grammarian, Gell. 5, 14, 1; Plin. 37, 5, 19, § 75.

Plitendum, i, n., a town of Asia, Liv. 38, 18, 3.