Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Tegea

    place · 4 works · 14 mentions · 24 anchored passages

    in the texts

    HellenicaClassical · Greek

    A city in Arcadia where Pausanias stages his troops before the Haliartus campaign and where he later dies in exile after fleeing his capital trial.

    And Pausanias, when his sacrifice at the frontier proved favourable, sent out his officers to muster the allies, and waited for the troops from the outlying towns of Laconia, he meanwhile resting at Tegea.
    book 3
    And he fled to Tegea, and there died a natural death.
    book 3
    And when the offering at the frontier proved favourable, upon his arrival at Tegea he sent horsemen hither and thither among the Perioeci to hasten their coming, and likewise sent mustering officers to the various cities of the allies.
    book 5

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    City in Arcadia, long a military rival of Sparta, in whose territory the bones of Orestes are eventually discovered by Lichas.

    When the Lacedaemonians heard the oracle reported, they left the other Arcadians alone and marched on Tegea carrying chains, relying on the deceptive oracle.
    book 1
    Those taken alive were bound in the very chains they had brought with them, and they measured the Tegean plain with a rope by working the fields.
    book 1
    It was Lichas, one of these men, who found the tomb in Tegea by a combination of luck and skill.
    book 1

    History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

    A major city of Arcadia, courted by the Corinthians and Argives to revolt from Sparta but which refuses.

    And the Corinthians and Argives, being now in alliance, went to Tegea, to procure its revolt from the Lacedaemonians, seeing that it formed a considerable part of the Peloponnese, and thinking that, if it were added to them, they would command the whole of it.
    book 5
    and taking up their own dead carried them back to Tegea, where they were buried, while they restored the enemy's under truce.
    book 5
    and on arriving at Tegea, sent on to Argos proposals for an accommodation.
    book 5

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    City in Arcadia which the Lacedaemonians attacked and were defeated at.

    I will not give it thee"—but also laid a punishment upon them, foretelling what should be, yet in such a way that they, not understanding, marched against Tegea and fell into the calamities known to all.
    oration 87