Orneae
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ὀρνεαί (Orneaí).
Proper noun
Orneae
- (history) A city, mentioned in the Iliad, situated north of Leontio in Corinthia in Ancient Greece.
- 1830, William Martin Leake, chapter XXX, in Travels in the Morea, volume III, page 350:
- Orneæ seems to have been situated very near the southern side of the plain of Ai Ghiórghi.