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Nonacris

Νωνακρίς), the wife of Lycaon, from whom the town of Nonacris in Arcadia was believed to have derived its name. (Paus. 8.17.5.) From this town Hermes and Evander are called Nonacriates and Nonacrius, in the general sense of Arcadian. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Νωνακρις; Ov. Fast. 5.97.)

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    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.17.5
    • Ovid, Fasti, 5
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