=Argynnis=, a name of Venus, which she received from _Argynnus_, a favourite youth of Agamemnon, who was drowned in the Cephisus. _Propertius_, bk. 3, poem 5, li. 52. =Argy̆ra=, a nymph greatly beloved by a shepherd called Selimnus. She was changed into a fountain, and the shepherd into a river of the same name, whose waters made lovers forget the object of their affections. _See:_ Selimnus. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 23.――――A city of Troas.――――Also the native place of Diodorus Siculus in Sicily. =Argy̆raspĭdes=, a Macedonian legion which received this name from their silver helmets. _Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 13. =Argy̆re=, an island beyond the mouth of the river Indus, abounding in metal. _Mela_, bk. 3, ch. 7. =Argyrĭpa=, a town of Apulia built by Diomedes after the Trojan war, and called by Polybius _Argipana_. Only ruins remain to show where it once stood, though the place still preserves the name of Arpi. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 246. =Aria=, a country of Asia, situate at the east of Parthia. _Mela_, bk. 1, ch. 2; bk. 2, ch. 7.――――The wife of Pætus Cecinna of Padua, a Roman senator who was accused of conspiracy against Claudius, and carried to Rome by sea. She accompanied him, and in the boat she stabbed herself, and presented the sword to her husband, who followed her example. _Pliny_, bk. 7. =Ariadne=, daughter of Minos II. king of Crete by Pasiphae, fell in love with Theseus, who was shut up in the labyrinth to be devoured by the Minotaur, and gave him a clue of thread, by which he extricated himself from the difficult windings of his confinement. After he had conquered the Minotaur, he carried her away according to the promise he had made, and married her; but when he arrived at the island of Naxos he forsook her, though she was already pregnant, and repaid his love with the most endearing tenderness. Ariadne was so disconsolate upon being abandoned by Theseus, that she hung herself, according to some; but Plutarch says that she lived many years after, and had some children by Onarus the priest of Bacchus. According to some writers, Bacchus loved her after Theseus had forsaken her, and he gave her a crown of seven stars, which, after her death, was made a constellation. The Argives showed Ariadne’s tomb, and when one of their temples was repaired, her ashes were found in an earthen urn. _Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 11, li. 320, says that Diana detained Ariadne at Naxos. _Plutarch_, _Theseus_.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 8, fable 2; _Heroides_, poem 10; _De Ars Amatoria_, bk. 2; _Fasti_, bk. 3, li. 462.――_Catullus_, _Marriage of Peleus and Thetis_; poem 61.――_Hyginus_, fables 14, 43, 270. ――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 1. =Ariæus=, an officer who succeeded to the command of the surviving army after the death of Cyrus the younger, after the battle of Cunaxa. He made peace with Artaxerxes. _Xenophon._