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Orneae

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρνεαί (Orneaí).

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Orneae

  1. (history) A city, mentioned in the Iliad, situated north of Leontio in Corinthia in Ancient Greece.
    • 1830, William Martin Leake, chapter XXX, in Travels in the Morea[1], volume III, page 350:
      Orneæ seems to have been situated very near the southern side of the plain of Ai Ghiórghi.