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Arcadia

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Arcadia

Central plateau and department of southern Greece; area 4,419 sq km/1,706 sq mi; population (1991) 103,800. Tripolis is the capital town.

Arcadia

Town in Los Angeles County, southwest California, USA; population (2000) 53,100. It is situated 26 km/16 mi northeast of Los Angeles, at the south foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, and to the east of Pasadena. The town grew up in the 1880s around the Santa Anita Ranch; the Santa Anita Racetrack, one of the best-known US horse racing facilities, opened in 1934 on the ranch's site. Also in Arcadia is the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum. While mainly residential, the town has a variety of high-tech manufacturing facilities.



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] -- Hesiod says she (Callisto) was the daughter of Lycaon and lived in Arcadia.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
Following our example, many more of Leandra's lovers have come to these rude mountains and adopted our mode of life, and they are so numerous that one would fancy the place had been turned into the pastoral Arcadia, so full is it of shepherds and sheep-folds; nor is there a spot in it where the name of the fair Leandra is not heard.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
He may be a shepherd in Arcadia for aught he knows, he may be the first youth kissing the first maiden, he may be Eros himself, sipping the lips of Psyche--it is all one.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
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