Arcadia
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Arcadia of the fine flocks · Arcadia rich in flocks · Arcadian · Arcadians · Arcady · land of many springs · mother of flocks · royal Lycaean altar · the mountain-glens and deep, winding valleys of Arcadia
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2 expressionsArcady“Arcadia”1 mention
Suppliants (Greek)
from Arcady he came even to the streams of Inachus, and in Argos spent his boyhood.
the Lycaean altar“Arcadia”1 mention
Olympian (Greek)
and all their victories in Argos and in Thebes, and all that shall be witnessed by the royal Lycaean altar that rules over the Arcadians, and by Pellana, and Sicyon, and Megara, the beautifully enclosed precinct of the Aeacidae, and Eleusis and splendid Marathon, and the wealthy and beautiful cities beneath the high crest of Aetna, and Euboea—you may search through all Greece, and you will find th …
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On the False Embassy
Greek region where Aeschines earlier denounced Philip's influence.
Aeschines, then, was the first man in Athens, as he claimed at the time in a speech, to perceive that Philip had designs against Greece, and was corrupting some of the magnates of Arcadia.
It was he who afterwards, on his return from Arcadia, gave a report of the fine long orations which he said he had delivered as your spokesman before the Ten Thousand at Megalopolis in reply to Philip’s champion Hieronymus, and he made a long story of the enormous harm which corrupt statesmen in the pay of Philip were doing not only to their own countries but to the whole of Greece.
It has entered Arcadia, and turned Arcadian politics upside down;
Olympian
Mountainous region of Greece, source of Heracles's Cerynean Hind pursuit, and Hagesias's maternal homeland.
And so his spirit prompted him to travel to the land of the Danube, where the horse-driving daughter of Leto had received him when he came from the mountain-glens and deep, winding valleys of Arcadia;
May time not creep up and disturb his prosperity, but may he with loving friendliness welcome the victory-procession of Hagesias as it comes to one home from his other home within the walls of Stymphalus, leaving his motherland, Arcadia of the fine flocks.
But if, Hagesias, it is true that the men on your mother’s side, living below the boundaries of Cyllene, piously gave many gifts, with prayers and sacrifices, to the herald of the gods, Hermes, who rules over games and the dispensation of contests, and honors Arcadia, the home of fine men, it is that god, son of Sostratus, who with his loud-thundering father fulfills your good fortune.
History of the Peloponnesian War
The central Peloponnesian region containing Mantinea, Tegea, the Parrhasian territory, and Lepreum, much of it contested between Sparta and Mantinea.
For a certain part of Arcadia had been reduced to subjection by the Mantineans, while the war with the Athenians was still going on;
The same summer, the Lacedaemonians made an expedition with all their forces, under the command of Pleistoanax, son of Pausanias, their king, into the country of the Parrhasians in Arcadia, who were subject to the Mantineans, and who had invited their interference in the spirit of faction:
Not long after them, the Corinthians despatched five hundred heavy-armed, some from Corinth itself, and some hired from Arcadia besides, having appointed Alexarchus, a Corinthian, to the command of them.
Hellenica
The region from which Iphicrates withdraws the Athenians.
When, accordingly, they proceeded to retire from Lacedaemon, then, of course, Iphicrates likewise proceeded to lead back the Athenians from Arcadia to Corinth.
For all their horsemen were away in Arcadia and likewise the mercenary force and three of the battalions, which numbered twelve.
Against Ctesiphon
Greek region largely joining the Lacedaemonian uprising except Megalopolis.
the Eleans and the Achaeans, all but the people of Pellene, had come over to them, and so had all Arcadia except Megalopolis, and that city was under siege and its capture was daily expected.
On the Embassy
Greek region associated with the Ten Thousand.
How outrageous that when a man whose business it is to act the parts of a Carion or of a Xanthias showed himself so noble and generous, Aeschines, the counsellor of the greatest city, the adviser of the Ten Thousand of Arcadia, did not restrain his insolence, but in drunken heat, when Xenodocus, one of the picked corps of Philip, was entertaining us, seized a captive woman by the hair, and took a …
Protrepticus
Greek region associated with Ares's claimed origin, a degrading Artemis cult, and the myth of Lycaon.
The Arcadians worship an Artemis called "the Strangled," as Callimachus says in his Causes.
Zeus himself partook of a human table among the Ethiopians, and of an inhuman and lawless one, feasted by Lycaon the Arcadian;
Take Ares, who even among the poets is honoured as much as may be — "Ares, Ares, bane of mortals, blood-stained, stormer of walls" — this fickle and hostile one was, as Epicharmus says, a Spartan;
For the People of Megalopolis
The Peloponnesian region whose control would strengthen Sparta.
The position of affairs, then, if one may judge from statements repeatedly made in your Assembly, is such that the Thebans will be weakened by the refounding of Orchomenus, Thespiae and Plataea, but the Lacedaemonians will regain their power, if they get Arcadia into their hands and destroy Megalopolis.
On the Crown
Greek region used in a counterfactual about loyal statesmen.
If in each of the cities of Greece there had been some one man such as I was in my appointed station in your midst, nay, if Thessaly had possessed one man and Arcadia one man holding the same sentiments that I held, no Hellenic people beyond or on this side of Thermopylae would have been exposed to their present distresses:
Orations
Region of the Peloponnese sought by the Lacedaemonians from the oracle.
For when the Lacedaemonians inquired of the oracle whether he would give them Arcadia, he not only refused, and reproached their insatiableness, speaking thus—"Arcadia thou askest of me;
Suppliants
Parthenopaeus's homeland before he settled and grew up in Argos.
from Arcady he came even to the streams of Inachus, and in Argos spent his boyhood.
The Trojan Women
Greek region named as a destination to which some captive Trojan women are assigned.
Arcadia takes some, and some the people of Thessaly;
The Histories
Mountainous region of the Peloponnese, home to the Arcadians and Tegeans, which the Delphic oracle denies the Spartans except for Tegea.
There is a place Tegea in the smooth plain of Arcadia,
They were not content to live in peace, but, confident that they were stronger than the Arcadians, asked the oracle at Delphi about gaining all the Arcadian land.
Hymn 18 to Hermes
Arcadia is the flock-rich region linked to Hermes' lordship.
I sing of Cyllenian Hermes, the Slayer of Argus, lord of Cyllene and Arcadia rich in flocks, luck-bringing messenger of the deathless gods.
Hymn 19 to Pan
Arcadia is the spring-rich, flock-nurturing land where Hermes tends sheep and weds Pan's mother.
They sing of the blessed gods and high Olympus and choose to tell of such an one as luck-bringing Hermes above the rest, how he is the swift messenger of all the gods, and how he came to Arcadia, the land of many springs and mother of flocks, there where his sacred place is as god of Cyllene.
Hymn 4 to Hermes
Arcadia is named as one of Hermes' pastoral domains.
Muse, sing of Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia, lord of Cyllene and Arcadia rich in flocks, the luck-bringing messenger of the immortals whom Maia bare, the rich-tressed nymph, when she was joined in love with Zeus,