Lĕlĕges

( a λεγω , to gather ), a wandering people, composed of different unconnected nations. They were originally inhabitants of Caria, and went to the Trojan war with Altes their king. Achilles plundered their country, and obliged them to retire to the neighbourhood of Halicarna us, where they fixed their habitation. The inhabitants of Laconia and Megara bore this name for some time, from Lelex, one of their kings. Strabo , bks. 7 & 8.— Homer , Iliad , bk. 21 , li. 85 .— Pliny , bk. 4 , ch. 7 ; bk. 5 , ch. 30 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 8 , li. 725 .— Pausanias , bk. 3 , ch. 1 .