Pleiae

Pleiae or Pleiai (Ancient Greek: Πλεῖαι), also known as Palaea or Palaia (Παλαιά),^[1] was a town of ancient Laconia, mentioned by Livy as the place where Nabis pitched his camp in 192 BCE.^[2] It must have been situated in the plain of Leuce, which lay between Acriae and Asopus. The name of the place occurs in an inscription.^[3]

Its site is located southwest of the modern Apidea.^[4]^[5]

References[edit]

^ Pausanias (1918). "22.6". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
^ Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 35.27.
^ August Böckh, Inscr. no. 1444.
^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
^ Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Pleiae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.

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[1] Pausanias (1918). "22.6". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.

[2] Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 35.27.

[3] August Böckh, Inscr. no. 1444.

[4] Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.

[5] Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.

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