Nonakris
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Nonacris or Nonakris () was a town of ancient Arcadia in the region of Pheneatis northwest of Pheneus, situated in what is now Achaea, southern Greece.
It was named after the wife of Lycaon, Nonacris (Νωνακρίς), and was part of the state of Pheneus. It was located near a cliff from which water thought to be that of the Styx trickled. By the time Pausanias visited the city, it was completely in ruins. The town is also noted by the ancient writers Herodotus, Stephanus of Byzantium, Pliny the Elder, Seneca, and Ovid. From this place Hermes is called Nonacriates Evander Nonacrius, Atalanta Nonacria, and Callisto Nonacrina virgo, in the general sense of Arcadian.
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