Falsafa

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

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    Tegea

    place · 6 works · 16 mentions · 26 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 he fled to Tegea, and there died a natural death.
    chapter 3
    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.
    chapter 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.
    chapter 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.

    Bring him back, and you shall be lord of Tegea.
    chapter 1
    There is a place Tegea in the smooth plain of Arcadia,
    chapter 1
    It was Lichas, one of these men, who found the tomb in Tegea by a combination of luck and skill.
    chapter 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.
    chapter 5
    and on arriving at Tegea, sent on to Argos proposals for an accommodation.
    chapter 5
    while the rest of the allies made preparations at Mantinea for proceeding against Tegea;
    chapter 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

    NemeanClassical · Greek

    City that, with others, set countless bronze prizes by the racecourse of Zeus.

    But it is impossible to give a full reckoning of their countless prizes of bronze—for it would require long leisure to number them—which Cleitor and Tegea and the upland cities of the Achaeans and Mount Lycaeon set by the racecourse of Zeus for men to win with the strength of their feet and hands.
    chapter 10

    OlympianClassical · Greek

    City in Arcadia credited with the first Olympic wrestling victory through Echemus.

    In wrestling, Echemus won glory for Tegea, And the prize in boxing was won by Doryclus, who lived in the city of Tiryns, And in the four-horse chariot the victor was Samos of Mantinea, the son of Halirhothius.
    chapter 10