Peliganes (Greek: Πελιγᾶνες Peliganes) is the word used to refer to the Ancient Macedonian senators. The term is attested to in Hesychius,(Hes.) Peliganes: the endoxoi (honourable); among the Syrians the bouleutai (chancellors). StraboStrabo, Fragments 7.2. and two inscriptions (in dative peligasi),Grammatically, as pelekan (pelican) Third declension-Nasal single-stem one from DionMacedonia (Greece)-Pieria—Dion (ca. 180 BC) τοῖς πελειγᾶσι peleigasi Epigraphical Database 3.Philip V salutes Eurylochos,the epistate(resident representative in Kyzikos), the Peleiganes and the rest Politai (citizens). and one from Laodicea.Syria Laodicea (Latakia) - ca. 174 BC - τοῖς πελιγᾶσιν peligasin Epigraphical Database 22.The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest by M. M. Austin The Decree of Laodicea From the description of Hesychius and the epigraphy, it is evident that Peliganes played a more significant role in Seleucids than Macedon. In Ptolemaic Kingdom the term is unattested. The Seleucid cliché phrase was:
