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Nemea

noun
1.
A valley in southeastern Greece where the Nemean Games were held.





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"Nemea" Quotes from Famous Books



... all these proceedings, set out from Corinth, and encamped on the Nemea, a river running between the confines of Corinth and Sicyon. Here, dismissing one half of his troops, he divided the remainder into three parts, and ordered all the cavalry of each part to march in separate divisions, and ravage, at the same time, the territories of Pellene, Sicyon, and Phlius. ...
— History of Rome, Vol III • Titus Livius
... the night at Achladhokamvo, where we visited the ruins of Hysiae close by, we went next day through Argos, passing within sight of Mycenae, to Nemea, where, in a beautiful little valley, three Doric columns, still standing, testify to the former sanctity of the spot. Then to Kurtissa, the ancient Cleonae, to pass the night. When Dhemetri pointed it out to us from the hill above, it looked like a New-England ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various


Words linked to "Nemea" :   Ellas, Greece, valley, Hellenic Republic, vale


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