Argive
of or relating to .
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a native of .
a .
historical examples
and he wrote a book in which he took away the palm of beauty from argive helen and handed it to poor penelope.
ulysses james joyce
let him also choose twenty trojan women, who may be fairest next to argive helen.
the iliad of homer (1873) homer
so once more the white sails were filled with the eastern breeze, and danae saw once more the argive land.
museum of antiquity l. w. yaggy
surely jove must have counselled the destruction of many an argive.
the iliad homer
the argive chamber was, last wednesday, the scene of an animated debate.
the casual ward a. d. g-dley
most of the argive chiefs joined in the proposed expedition.
historic tales, vol 10 (of 15) charles morris
the advice of ephorus was most wise; he broke with an axe the new chord added to the argive lyre.
isabella orsini francesco domenico guerrazzi
of the members of the argive series the latest alone is perfect.
studies of travel – greece edward a. freeman
cleobis and biton are the first they mention, sons of the argive priestess; the story is a well-known one.
cicero’s tusculan disputations marcus tullius cicero
in argive looms our battles to design, and woes, of which so large a part was thine!
mosaics of grecian history marcius willson
adjective
(in homer, virgil, etc) of or relating to the greeks besieging troy, esp those from argos
of or relating to argos or argolis
a literary word for greek
noun
an ancient greek, esp one from argos or argolis
adj.
“of argos,” hence, especially in homeric usage, “the greeks,” as a byword for achaean (he describes agamemnon as king of argos), 1520s, from latin argivus, from greek argeios “of argos.”
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