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A territory.[1] Also a proper name.[2]
"There is a gravestone for Arkadia, the second wife of Zenon, in the Arcadian [baths] in the part near to the group of monuments known as 'Places' in the grounds of the Arch-general, where Zenon tried the followers of Basiliskos and made the place off-limits. [The grave] of his other wife, the first one, Ariadne, and of Zenon himself are in the royal gateway."[3]
And [there is] a proverb: 'are you asking me for Arkadia? You are asking a lot, I will not give it to you.' In reference to those who make large and inconvenient requests.[4]

Arkadia: chôra. kai onoma kurion. hoti Arkadias tês deuteras gunaikos Zênônos stêlê estin en Arkadianais, en tois plêsion meresi tôn bathrôn tôn legomenôn Topôn en tôi tou Archistratêgou: entha Zênôn ekrine tous meta Basiliskou kai sekreton ton topon epoiêse. tês de heteras autou gunaikos prôtês Ariadnês kai autou Zênônos en têi basilikêi pulêi. kai paroimia: Arkadiên me aiteis; mega me aiteis, ou toi dôsô: epi tôn ta megala kai mê sumpheronta aitountôn.

[Thanks to Jennifer Benedict for some very helpful suggestions on the middle part of this composite entry.]
[1] In the heart of the Peloponnese, in Greece. See already alpha 3946, and generally OCD(4) pp.134-5, s.v. "Arcadia", "Arcadian cults and myths", and "Arcadian League".
[2] See what follows here.
[3] Again at sigma 1084. Adler cites Preger, Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum 164.11-17 (= ps.Codinus, Patria Constantinopoleos 2.27). On the emperor Zeno see zeta 83, zeta 84, and web address 1 (Hugh Elton). On Basiliscus see alpha 3970 and beta 164. The "arch-general" would be the Archangel Michael.
[4] See on this Herodotus 1.66: a Delphic oracular response given to the Spartans in respect of their territorial designs on Arkadia in the mid C6 BCE. For this and later references -- to which one should add the paroemiographers, such as Diogenianus 2.69 -- see J. Fontenrose, The Delphic Oracle: its responses and operations (Berkeley 1978) 298, Q88.

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