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Patrae

Πάτραι). Now Patras. One of the twelve cities of Achaea, and situated west of Rhium, near the opening of the Corinthian Gulf. It was the only Achaean city that sided with Athens in the Peloponnesian War (Thuc.v. 52). Augustus made it the chief city of Achaia.

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    • Thucydides, Histories, 5.52
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