The corpus record — Latin

Tegea

Tegea · f

a very ancient town in Arcadia

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 2 · 1.58/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 41-42 - 41 1 · 1.32/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 1 · 0.59/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Ab urbe condita 5 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

Tĕgĕa — Lewis & Short

Tĕgĕa, ae (Tĕgĕē, f., = *tege/a,

Stat. Th. 11, 177),

I a very ancient town in Arcadia, now Paleo - Episkopi, near Tripolitza, Mel. 2, 3, 5; Plin. 4, 6, 10, § 20.—Poet. for Arcadia, Stat. Th. 11, 177; Claud. B. G. 576.— Hence,

A Tĕgĕēŭs or Tĕgĕaeŭs, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Tegea, Tegean; poet. for Arcadian: gens, Verg. A. 5, 299: Pan, Prop. 3, 3 (4, 2), 30; Verg. G. 1, 18: virgo, i. e. Callisto, a daughter of Lycaon, king of Arcadia, Ov. A. A. 2, 55; id. F. 2, 167: volucer. i. e. Mercury, Stat. S. 1, 5, 4. —Also subst.: Tĕgĕaea, ae, f., the Arcadian Atalanta, Ov. M. 8, 317; 8, 380: parens, i. e. Carmenta, the mother of Evander, id. F. 1, 627; called also sacerdos, id. ib. 6, 531. —

B Tĕgĕātĭcus, a, um, adj., Arcadian: volucer, i. e. Mercury, Stat. S. 1, 2, 18; called also ales, id. ib. 5, 1, 102. —

C Tĕgĕātae, ārum, m., the inhabitants of Tegea, the Tegeans, Cic. Div. 1, 19, 37.—

D Tĕgĕātis, ĭdis, f. adj., Tegean; poet. for Arcadian: mater, i. e. the Arcadian Atalanta, Stat. Th. 9, 571: capra, Sil. 13, 329.

In the wild

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Where it came from

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