Nonacris

The wife of Lycaon, from whom the town of Nonacris in Arcadia was believed to have derived its name.1 From this town Hermes and Evander are called Nonacriates and Nonacrius, in the general sense of Arcadian.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 17.5.
  2. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Νωνακρις; Ovid. Fasti v, 97.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.