Prosymna

PROSYMNA(Πρόσυμνα: Eth. Προσυμναῖος, Steph. B. s. v.), an ancient town in the Argeia, in whose territory the celebrated Heraeum, or temple of Hera, stood. (Strab. 8. p. 373). Statius gives it the epithet celsa( Theb. 4.44). Pausanias (Paus. 2.17.2) mentions only a district of this name. (Leake, Peloponnesiaca, pp. 264, 269.) [See Vol. I. pp. 206, 207.]