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Malĕa

Μαλέα).


1.

A promontory on the southeast of Laconia, separating the Argolic and Laconic gulfs. At this point the sea is so rough as to give rise to the proverb, Cum ad Maleam deflexeris, obliviscere quae sunt domi (Mela, ii. 3).


2.

A promontory on the coast of Lesbos.

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