Pleias, Pleiadis, Mais, the chiefe of the seuen sisters called Pleiades,
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Plēïas and Plējas (dissyl.), (Plīas), ădis, f., = *plhi+a/s and *pleia/s. I.One of the Seven Stars, a Pleiad; usually in plur.: Pleiades (Pliades) = *pleia/des, 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,