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Peloria

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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Pelt, Anton Friedrich Ludwig
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a festival observed by the Thessalians in commemoration of the news which they received by one Pelorius that the mountains of Tempe had been separated by an earthquake, and that the waters of the lake which lay there stagnated had found a passage into the Alpheus, and left behind a vast, pleasant, and most delightful plain, etc.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Peloria'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​p/peloria.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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