argive
Speech parts
1. argive - Noun
2. argive - Adjective
Meaning
Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece.
A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek.
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"Among the Heneti certain honours have been decreed to Diomedes; and, indeed, a white horse is still sacrificed to him, and two precincts are still to be seen — one of them sacred to the Argive Hera and the other to the Aetolian Artemis.
As Proetus refused to accept these terms, the madness of his daughters not only increased, but was communicated to the other Argive women also, so that they murdered their own children and ran about in a state of frenzy.
It is unclear whether Stephanus Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Thasos is referring to a son of Agenor named Proetus, or to the Argive Proetus as a descendant of Agenor.
Known as an Argive grip, it placed the handle at the edge of the shield, and was supported by a leather fastening (for the forearm) at the centre.
Other ritually bathed goddesses were Argive Hera and Cybele ; Aphrodite renewed her own powers bathing herself in the sea.
Nor was a connection immediately detected between them and the objects found four years later in a tomb at Menidi in Attica and a rock-cut "bee-hive" grave near the Argive Heraeum.