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Ptolis
Ptolis ( ) was a town in ancient Arcadia, which may have been the original site of the city of Mantineia. Pausanias places Ptolis on the more easterly road from between Mantineia and Orchomenus, and indicates that its ruins were thirty stadia from the ruins of Maera. Its site is unlocated.
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Ptolis ( ) was a town in ancient Arcadia, which may have been the original site of the city of Mantineia. Pausanias places Ptolis on the more easterly road from between Mantineia and Orchomenus, and indicates that its ruins were thirty stadia from the ruins of Maera. Its site is unlocated.
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- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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