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Τεγέα

tegea · ἡ

Tegea, of, from Tegea

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Where it lives

  • Hellenica 16 · 2.43/10k
  • Agesilaus 1 · 1.36/10k
  • Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
  • History 12 · 0.8/10k
  • Histories 13 · 0.71/10k
  • Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
  • Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

Τεγέα · Tegea — LSJ

Tegea, of, from Tegea, of, from a brothel, the Tegeate country

Tegea in Arcadia, Il. 2.607, Pi. O. 10(11).66, etc.:—Τεγεάτης [ᾱ], ου, Ion. Τεγε-ήτης, ὁ, of or from Tegea, Hdt. 1.65, etc.; then, by a play upon words, of or from a brothel (v. τέγος III), Diog.Cyn. ap. D.L. 6.61: fem. Τεγεᾶτις, ιδος, (sc. χώρα) the Tegeate country, Th. 5.65:—Adj. Τεγεᾱτικός, Ion. Τεγε-ητικός, ή, όν, Hdt. 8.124.

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Where it came from

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