Elea, ae, f., = Ἐλέα, a city of Lucania, the birth-place of Parmenides and Zeno, the founders of the Eleatic philosophy, in Lat. also called Velia, Cic. N. D. 3, 33, 82.

— Hence, Zeno Eleātes, of Elea, Cic. Tusc. 2, 22, 52; and: Eleātici philosophi, Eleatic, id. Ac. 2, 42, 129.