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Tempe

the Vale of Tempe

also: Tempe, sua Tempe, Τέμπη

The celebrated wooded gorge of the river Peneus in Thessaly, byword for idyllic beauty; Cicero jokingly calls the Reatines' valley 'their own Tempe' (Att. 4.15.5).

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