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Xenophon, Minor Works (ed. E. C. Marchant, G. W. Bowersock, tr. Constitution of the Athenians.) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Pindar, Odes (ed. Diane Arnson Svarlien) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Poetics | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Homeric Hymns (ed. Hugh G. Evelyn-White) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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The part of Arcadia that lies next to the Argive land is occupied by Tegeans and Mantineans, who with the rest of the Arcadians inhabit the interior of the Peloponnesus. The first people within the peninsula are the Corinthians, living on the Isthmus, and their neighbors on the side sea-wards are the Epidaurians. Along Epidaurus, Troezen, and Nermion, come the Argolic Gulf and the coast of Argolis; next to Argolis come the vassals of Lacedaemon, and these border on Messenia, which comes down to isonous.
But he introduced as food the nuts of trees, not those of all trees but only the acorns of the edible oak. Some people have followed this diet so closely since the time of Pelasgus that even the Pythian priestess, when she forbade the Lacedaemonians to touch the land of the Arcadians, uttered the following verses:—In Arcadia are many men who eat acorns,Who will prevent you; though I do not grudge it you.It is said that it was in the reign of Pelasgus that the land was called Pelasgia