Mantinea

[ man-tuh-nee-uh ]

noun
  1. an ancient city in S Greece, in Arcadia: battles 362 b.c., 223 b.c.

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How to use Mantinea in a sentence

  • Antigonus now advanced, took Tegea, and allowed his troops to plunder Orchomenus and Mantinea.

  • A genius, a master of strategy and king-craft has been quietly growing up in Mantinea, and we not a whit the wiser!

  • Leaving Orchomenus at the first streak of dawn, he passed Mantinea still under cover of darkness.

    Hellenica | Xenophon
  • But during his pause at Nemea those who shared the opposite policy had time to converge on Mantinea.

    Hellenica | Xenophon
  • Only a snort time before one of their principal cities, Mantinea, had been robbed of its walls and converted into open villages.

British Dictionary definitions for Mantinea

Mantinea

Mantineia

/ (ˌmæntɪˈneɪə) /


noun
  1. (in ancient Greece) a city in E Arcadia; site of several battles

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