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were evidently ditches for the purpose of draining the marshy plain, by conducting the water towards the Katavóthra, around which there was, probably, a small lake. In the time of Pausanias we find that the lake covered the greater part of the plain; and that exactly in the situation in which
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It is probable that during the four centuries that elapsed between the battle of Caphyae and the visit of Pausanias, a diminution of population should have caused a neglect of the drainage which had formerly ensured the cultivation of the whole plain, and that in the time of the
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Pausanias says that on the inner side of the embankment there flows a river, which, descending into a chasm of the earth, issues again at a place called
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an embankment of earth had been thrown up to preserve the part nearest to Caphyae, leaving the rest uncultivated and marshy.
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Strabo speaks of the town as in ruins in his time; but it still contained some temples when visited by Pausanias (
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obtained possession. In its neighborhood a great battle was fought in 220 BC, in which the
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Polybius describes the ditches, there was a mound of earth.
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or Daraiiko). He also speaks of a mountain named Cnacalos (
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situated in a small plain, northwest of the lake of
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Index

Ancient Greek
ancient Arcadia
Orchomenus
Aleus
Athenian
Achaean League
Cleomenes III
Aetolians
Aratus of Sicyon
Roman Empire
Nasi
Rheunus
Tragus
Tara
Artemis Cnacalesia
Chotoussa
Pausanias
Strabo
Polybius
"Knakalos Mt. (Arkadia) 1 Kastania - Κνάκαλος"
Lund University
Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire
Richard Talbert
Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
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Smith, William
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
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