A classical dictionary: containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological tableLemprière, John
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A classical dictionary: containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table
Lemprière, John
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=Argathōnius=, a king of Tartessus, who, according to _Pliny_, bk. 7,
ch. 48, lived 120 years, and 300 according to _Silius Italicus_,
bk. 3, li. 396.
=Arge=, a beautiful huntress changed into a stag by Apollo. _Hyginus_,
fable 205.――――One of the Cyclops. _Hesiod._――――A daughter of
Thespius, by whom Hercules had two sons. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2.――――A
nymph, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1.
=Argea=, a place at Rome where certain Argives were buried.
=Argæāthæ=, a village of Arcadia. _Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 23.
=Argennum=, a promontory of Ionia.
=Arges=, a son of Cœlus and Terra, who had only one eye in his
forehead. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 1.
=Argestrătus=, a king of Lacedæmon, who reigned 35 years.
=Argēus=, a son of Perdiccas king of Macedonia, who obtained the
kingdom when Amyntas was deposed by the Illyrians. _Justin_, bk. 7,
ch. 2.
=Argi= (plural, masculine). _See:_ Argos.
=Argīa=, daughter of Adrastus, married Polynices, whom she loved with
uncommon tenderness. When he was killed in the war, she buried his
body in the night, against the positive orders of Creon, for which
pious action she was punished with death. Theseus revenged her death
by killing Creon. _Hyginus_, fables 69 & 72.――_Statius_, _Thebiad_,
bk. 12. _See:_ Antigone and Creon.――――A country of Peloponnesus,
called also Argolis, of which Argos was the capital.――――One of the
Oceanides. _Hyginus_, _preface_.――――The wife of Inachus, and mother
of Io. _Hyginus_, fable 145.――――The mother of Argos by Polybus.
_Hyginus_, fable 145.――――A daughter of Autesion, who married
Aristodemus, by whom she had two sons, Eurysthenes and Procles.
_Apollodorus_, bk. 2.――_Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 3.
=Argias=, a man who founded Chalcedon, A.U.C. 148.
=Argilētum=, a place at Rome near the Palatium, where the tradesmen
generally kept their shops. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 355.
――_Martial_, bk. 1, ltr. 4.
=Argilius=, a favourite youth of Pausanias, who revealed his master’s
correspondence with the Persian king to the Ephori. _Cornelius
Nepos_, _Pausanias_.
=Argillus=, a mountain of Egypt near the Nile.
=Argĭlus=, a town of Thrace near the Strymon, built by a colony of
Andrians. _Thucydides_, bk. 4, ch. 103.――_Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 115.
=Arginūsæ=, three small islands near the continent, between Mitylene
and Methymna, where the Lacedæmonian fleet was conquered by Conon
the Athenian. _Strabo_, bk. 13.
=Argiŏpe=, a nymph of mount Parnassus, mother of Thamyris by Philammon
the son of Apollo. _Pausanias_, bk. 4, ch. 33.
=Argiphontes=, a surname given to Mercury, because he _killed_ the
hundred-eyed _Argus_, by order of Jupiter.
=Argippēi=, a nation among the Sauromatians, born bald, and with flat
noses. They lived upon trees. _Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 23.
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