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MEGALE POLIS

Volume 7 · 54 words · 1778 Edition

(anc. geogr.), dividedly (Ptolemy, Panfanius); or conjunctly Megalopolis, (Strabo): A town of Arcadia, built under the auspices of Epaminondas, after the battle of Leuctra; many inconsiderable towns being joined together in one great city, MEI [4883] MEL

Megameter the better to withstand the Spartans. It was the greatest city of Arcadia, according to Strabo.