Ἀργόλαι
argolai, snakes
Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 Jul 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
A type of snakes, which the Macedonian Alexander brought from Pelasgian Argos [Myth, Place] to Alexandria and threw into the river for the destruction of the cobras, when he moved the bones of the prophet Jeremiah from Egypt to Alexandria; the prophet himself killed them. So "argolai" [means] "ill-omened [laioi] out of Argos".