PLEIAE
PLEIAE (
Πλεῖαι), a town of Laconia, mentioned by Livy (
35.27) as the place where Nabis pitched his camp in B.C. 192, must have been situated in the plain of Leuce, which lay between Acriae and Asopus. [
LEUCAE] The name of the place occurs in an inscription (Böckh,
Inscr. no. 1444). From its position it would appear to be the same as the
παλαιὰ κώμη of Pausanias (
3.22.6), in which passage Curtius suggests that we might perhaps read
Πλεῖαι κώην. (Curtius,
Peloponnesos, vol. ii. p. 328.)