ας (ἡ) Tégéa (Tégée, auj. ruines près d’Aléa) v. d’Arcadie, HDT. 1, 66, 68, etc. ; THC. 5, 32, 62, etc. ; XÉN. Hell. 3, 5, 8, etc.

➳ ion. Τεγέη, IL. 2, 607 ; HDT. ll. cc.

ας, Ion. Τεγέη, ης, ἡ, Tegea in Arcadia, Il. 2.607, Pi. O. 10 (11).66, etc. ; — Τεγεάτης [α], ου, Ion. Τεγεήτης, ὁ, of or from Tegea, Hdt. 1.65, etc. ; then, by a play upon words, of or from a brothel (v. τέγος III), Diog. Cyn. ap. D.L. 6.61; fem. Τεγεᾶτις, ιδος, (sc. χώρα) the Tegeate country, Th. 5.65; — Adj. Τεγεατικός, Ion. Τεγεητικός, ή, όν, Hdt. 8.124.

Place, proper name

• important Archaic polis at Piali/Episkopi in Arkadia Peloponnese. (TOPOS text)