Elea

[ ee-lee-uh ]

/ ˈi li ə /

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noun

an ancient Greek city in SW Italy, on the coast of Lucania.

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Also called Ve·li·a

[vee-lee-uh] /ˈvi li ə/ .

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How to use Elea in a sentence

Nothing demonstrates this better than the celebrated arguments which we owe to Zeno of Elea.
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson|Edouard le Roy
He should rather have said—'scoles of Elea and of the Academie.'
Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7)|Geoffrey Chaucer
From thence they sailed over to Subota, an island between Elea and Athos.
The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End|Titus Livius
The school of Elea rejected the gross anthropomorphism of the Homeric theology.
Christianity and Greek Philosophy|Benjamin Franklin Cocker

Logic has the serpent in her hand below a veil, and at her feet Zeno of Elea, who is reading.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects|Giorgio Vasari

British Dictionary definitions for Elea

Elea

/ (ˈiːlɪə) /

noun

(in ancient Italy) a Greek colony on the Tyrrhenian coast of Lucana

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