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PROSYMNA

PROSYMNA (Πρόσυμνα: Eth. Προσυμναῖος, Steph. B. sub voce an ancient town in the Argeia, in whose territory the celebrated Heraeum, or temple of Hera, stood. (Strab. viii. p.373). Statius gives it the epithet “celsa” (Theb. 4.44). Pausanias (2.17.2) mentions only a district of this name. (Leake, Peloponnesiaca, pp. 264, 269.) [See Vol. I. pp. 206, 207.]

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