Plēïas and Plējas (dissyl.）, (Plī̆as), ădis, f., = Πληϊάς and Πλειάς.
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.—
II Poet., transf., a storm or rain , Val. Fl. 4, 268; 2, 405: Pliada movere, to cause the Pleiads to rise , id. 2, 357.