Tegea
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He p. 282listened steadily, gave orders for the defence of Tegea, and then, travelling all night, went home and gave way to an agony of grief, with his mother and two little children.
From Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
The whole of his great project was not realized, and Megalopolis, instead of becoming 'the great city' of Arcadia, was only a mate to Tegea and Mantinea.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 by Various
Sparta, by the conquest of Messenia and Tegea, had obtained the first rank in Peloponnesus, which character she confirmed by the expulsion of the tyrants, and the overthrow of Argos.
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Müller, Karl Otfried
In fact, Mantinea and Tegea were in themselves fully as important a check on Sparta in their own valley, and were absolutely necessary to hold the passes northward to Argos, which lay in that direction.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
Tripolitza lies between the ancient sites of Mantinea and Tegea, and quite close to the latter.112.This was done by the monks at Athos, when Mahomet II. was threatening Constantinople.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by Mahaffy, J. P.
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