Crossword-Solution: PELIAS 6 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

For he had a step-brother named Pelias, of whom some said that he was a nymph’s son, and there were dark and sad tales about his birth.

But a shepherd passing found the baby, with its face all blackened by the blow; and took him home, and called him Pelias, because his face was bruised and black.

And Æson, when he was driven out, went sadly away out of the town, leading his little son by the hand; and he said to himself, ‘I must hide the child in the mountains; or Pelias will surely kill him, because he is the heir.’ So he went up from the sea across the valley, through the vineyards and the olive groves, and across the torrent of Anauros, toward Pelion the ancient mountain, whose brows are white with snow.

Are you stronger than Pelias the terrible?’ ‘I can try my strength with his,’ said Jason; but Cheiron sighed, and said— ‘You have many a danger to go through before you rule in Iolcos by the sea: many a danger and many a woe; and strange troubles in strange lands, such as man never saw before.’ ‘The happier I,’ said Jason, ‘to see what man never saw before.’ And Cheiron sighed again, and said, ‘The eaglet must leave the nest when it is fledged.

The oracle in Delphi has said that a man wearing one sandal should take the kingdom from Pelias, and keep it for himself.