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Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Phalaesiae

A town in Arcadia, south of Megalopolis, on the road to Sparta, twenty stadia from the Laconian frontier.

Greek & Roman Geography (ed. William Smith)

Phalaeseae

Phalaeseae (Phalaisiai: Eth. Phalaisieus), a town of Arcadia, in the district Maleatis on the road from Megalopolis to Sparta, 20 stadia from the Hermaeum towards Belbina. Leake originally placed it near Gardhiki, but subsequently a little to the eastward of Bura, where Gell remarked some Hellenic remains among the ruins of the Buzeika Kalyvia. (Paus. viii. 35. § 3; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 298; Peloponnesiaca, p. 237.)

This is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks


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