Peliganes

Strabo cites the word as Peligones, meaning the senators of both Macedonians, Thesprotians and Molossians and compares them to Gerontes (Gerousia) of Laconians and Massaliotes. He further remarks that πελιοί pelioi in the dialects of Epirus and Macedonia, means old men. Πεληός pelêos or pelios is the common Doric form, There are many more Macedonian inscribed eponyms such as Epigan, Peleigenes, Peleigines, Peligenes. Pelignas was finally a Macedonian or Epirote chef sent by Olympias to Alexander. Polybius mentions Adeiganes for the council, magistrates of Seleucia, (who were banished, fined and exiled by the minister Hermeias); a word unattested in epigraphy and other sources. Editor P. Roussel has emended to Peleiganes, while Hammond suggests that it might be an original West Macedonian word. ==References==