Leleges, or Lelegæ, People which were alway wandring, and inhabited sometime in Thessaly. Some take them for the Thessalians.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Lĕlĕges, um, m., = *le/leges, a Pelasgic tribe who lived scattered over several parts of Asia Minor and Greece (in Caria, lonia, Mysia, Thessaly, Locris, Megara), Plin. 4, 7, 12, 27; 5, 30, 33, 127; Verg. A. 8, 725; Ov. M. 9, 645; Luc. 6, 383.—In sing.: hac Ixionides, illa Troezenius heros parte Lelex, the Lelegeian, as a proper name, Ov. M. 8, 566.—II. Hence, A. Lĕ-lĕgēïus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to the Leleges, Lelegeian: litora, i. e.
the coast of Megara
, Ov. M. 8, 8: moenia, i. e.
Megara
, id. ib. 7, 443.—B. Lĕlĕgēis, ĭdis, adj., Lelegeian, Asiatic: nymphae Lelegeides, Ov. M. 9, 651.—Subst., an early name of Miletus, because formerly inhabited by the Leleges, Plin. 5, 29, 31, 112.