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Tegea: Tegea, a city of Arcadia. "And they held Tegea and lovely Mantinea", Homer. And Pausanias in the eighth book: "Mantineus and 'Tegeates' and Mainalos found Tegea and Mantinea". Lepidus in the first book of the Epitome of History says thus concerning the Lacedaemonians: "the Pythia gives them an oracle concerning Arcadia as follows: 'You ask me for Arcadia. You ask me a great thing; I will not give it to you. Many acorn-eating men there are in Arcadia, who will hinder you. But I do not begrudge you at all. I will give you Tegea to dance on with beating feet.' And they consulted again, and this comes to them: 'There is a certain Tegea of Arcadia in a level place, where two winds blow under strong compulsion, and blow and counter-blow, and woe lies upon woe. There the life-giving earth holds the son of Agamemnon; bring him home, and you will be master of Tegea'". There is also a Tegea in Crete, founded by Talthybius. The citizen 'Tegeates', as 'Eleates', and the feminine 'Tegeatis'. And there was also a lyric poet Anyte of Tegea. It is also said 'Tegeas', as 'Ilias'. It is oxytone. As Sophocles.