Pleiae or Pleiai (Ancient Greek: Πλεῖαι), also known as Palaea or Palaia (Παλαιά), was a town of ancient Laconia, mentioned by Livy as the place where Nabis pitched his camp in 192 BCE. It must have been situated in the plain of Leuce, which lay between Acriae and Asopus. The name of the place occurs in an inscription.
Its site is located southwest of the modern Apidea.
References
- Pausanias (1918). "22.6". Description of Greece. Vol. 3. Translated by W. H. S. Jones; H. A. Ormerod. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann – via Perseus Digital Library.
- Livy. Ab urbe condita Libri [History of Rome]. Vol. 35.27.
- August Böckh, Inscr. no. 1444.
- Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 58, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
- Lund University. Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Pleiae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
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