Cleonae
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in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A place near Argos marking the furthest extent of a Lacedaemonian march that was abandoned after an earthquake.
The same summer the Lacedaemonians also marched against Argos, and went as far as Cleonae, but, on the occurrence of an earthquake, returned.
Hellenica
A town passed through by the Athenian horsemen during their march to relieve Mantinea.
but the Athenian horsemen, setting out from Eleusis, had taken dinner at the Isthmus and, after having passed through Cleonae also, chanced to be approaching Mantinea or to be already quartered within the wall in the houses.