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Sellasia

Σελλασία). A town in Laconia, north of Sparta, near the river Oenus. Here was fought a great battle between Cleomenes III. and Antigonus Doson in B.C. 221, resulting in the defeat of the former (Polyb. ii. 65-70).

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