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[4] After this battle the Arcadians, fearful of the invasions of the Lacedaemonians, founded in a favourable location the city called Great, Megalopolis, by combining to form it twenty1 villages of the Arcadians known as Maenalians2 and Parrhasians.

Such were the events in Greece at this time.

1 Paus. 8.27.3-4 names forty villages. Cary, Cambridge Ancient History, 6.91-92, accepts Diodorus' figure but not his date. For the date of founding Paus. 8.27.8 gives 371/0; the Parian Marble 370/69 or 369/8, while Beloch, Griechische Geschichte (2), 3.1.187, accepts Diodorus.

2 Districts of southern Arcadia. In Maenalia was situated the new foundation, Megalopolis.

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