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3785
Ἀργώ
Argo
See already alpha 3782. The
Argo
was the mythical ship of Jason, on which he sailed to Colchis to find the Golden Fleece and brought back Medea. See Apollodorus 1.9.17-26; also e.g. Pausanias 2.12.6 …
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3772
Ἀργειφόντης
Argeiphontes, Argos-Slayer
Attested from Homer onwards. On the monster
Argos
[Myth, Place], see generally RE
Argos(19);
OCD(4) p.50, s.v. Argus.
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3766
Ἀργεία
Argeia
On
Argos
[Myth, Place], in the NE Peloponnese, see generally OCD(4) p.149, s.v.
'Argos(1)'
and Barrington Atlas map 58 grids D2-E2. Hera was the principal deity there: OCD(4) pp.149-50, s.v.
Argos,
cults'. The Argive …
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210
Δελφοί
Delphi, Delphoi
… pi 3137, pi 3138. [1] See e.g. Apollonius of Rhodes,
Argonautica
2.705-6. [2] The verb pu/qesqai (pi 3138) means "to decay". For this material cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.405, where the phrase …
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1189
Διοπομπεῖσθαι
to escort [evil] away
… Cratinus fr. 347 Kock = 392 K.-A.): "paroimi/a ti/s e)stin
*argolikh\
*le/rnh kakw=n, h(\n a)podiopompou/menoi e)/legon. ta\ ga\r a)pokaqa/rmata ei)s tou=to to\ xwri/on e)ne/ballon, "there is a common saying,
'Argolian
Lerne of ills' [= …
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776
Ἴφιτος
Iphitos, Iphitus
… mythology, e.g.: (1) I. son of Naubolos; one of the
Argonauts
(and cf. Homer, Iliad 2.518). (2) I. son of Eurytos, the king of Oichalia. When Heracles was accused by Eurytus of having stolen …
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1175
Διονύσιος
Dionysios, Dionysius
… Fables, pertaining to the Expedition of Dionysos and Athena and
Argonauts,
in 6 books".
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19
Ἀβαρνίς
Abarnis
… (74), and cf. more generally the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
1.932 (where the genitive case occurs), on which see further below. Abarnis lay on the southern shore of the Propontis (Sea of Marmara), …
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15
Ἀβάντειος
Abanteios, Abantius, Abantian
… fact almost certainly A. the son of Lynkeus, king of
Argos
[Myth, Place] after Danaos and father of the twins Akrisios and Proitos (Pausanias 2.16.2 (web address 1); Apollodorus, Library 2.2.1 (web address 2)). …
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1298
Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι
Alcyon days, Halcyon days, kingfisher days
… cry was taken as one of ill-omen (e.g. Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
1.1085). [1] cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 250. [2] The halcyon days were associated with a habit of nesting and incubating for …
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1340
Ἁλοσύδνης
sea-born
… which proffer the present gloss); of Nereids in Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.1599. Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius alpha1043 Theodoridis. May contain the root of hudor, "water."
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1674
Ἀμυμώνειος
Amymonian
… was the daughter of Danaus who went for water at
Argos
[Myth, Place], was rescued from a satyr, then seduced by Poseidon, who created a spring in commemoration and named it after her. See …
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2504
Ἄνθεια
Antheia, Flowery
At
Argos
[Myth, Place] (Pausanias 2.22.1) and Miletos: see LSJ s.v.
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3791
Ἀργυρίππη
Argyrippe
… common. Chief city of the Daunians and also known as
Argos
[Myth, Place] Hippium.
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4048
Ἀρτίτομος
fresh from cutting
… similarly elsewhere. For the first of these see Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.1515 (on the Gorgon's head).
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237
Βενεβεντός
Beneventos, Beneventum, Benevento
… another Beneventum near Verona.) On the other hand Argyrippe, a.k.a.
Argos
[Myth, Place] Hippium, was in Apulia, which is at least within striking distance of Calabria. This odd entry appears to be conflating information …
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1161
Διόμεια
Diomeia
… on Aristophanes, Frogs 477. [2] See scholion on Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
1.1207. Son of Kollytos (the eponym of another deme) this figure is connected with two legends concerning Attica. A priest of Zeus Polieus, …
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1546
Δρύοπες
Dryopes
… See Pherecydes FGrH 3 F19); Apollodorus 2.7.1; Apollonius of Rhodes,
Argonautica
1.1212ff.; Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 160ff.
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823
Ἑλειονόμος
marsh-dwelling
An epithet of nymphs in Apollonios Rhodios:
Argonautica
2.821 (web address 1), 3.1219. cf. generally epsilon 824.
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928
Ἐμασχαλίσθη
was armpitted
… frr. 528, 623 (of Troilos, by Achilles) and Apollonios Rhodios,
Argonautica
4.477 (of Apsyrtos son of Aietes, by Jason). The practice was evidently well enough known to fifth-century Athenians to need no explanation, but …
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3019
Ἑρκύνιοι δρυμοί
Hercynian forests (?Black Forest)
… (epsilon5931). Hera shouts from a Hercynian cliff in Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.640; cf. scholiast ad loc. We might speculate that it is a borrowing from Celtic or Thracian for the very ancient mother-goddess whose …
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3043
Ἑρμιόνη
Hermione
… and Helen; OCD(4) s.v. Re b, a city of the
Argolid
(see already under epsilon 3042, and cf. alpha 2499). Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
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3732
Εὐρυσθεύς
Eurystheus
[1] That of the king of
Argos
[Myth, Place], in mythology, who assigned Heracles his Labours. See generally OCD(4) s.v., and cf. under alpha 3089, eta 252. [2] i.e. either son or, more generally, …
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3996
Ἔχετος
Echetus, Echetos
… King Echetus of Epirus see (besides Homer, below): Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
4.1092-1095; Hesychius s.v.; ps.-Nonnus, Scholia mythologica 4.48; Michael Apostolius s.v. *fala/ridos a)rxh\ kai\ *)exe/tou; and under beta 279 and tau 1187. [1] Homer, …
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4014
Ἐχίων
Echion
… of Hermes and twin brother of Erytos, both of them
Argonauts
and participants in the Calydonian boar-hunt. The present entry presumably concerns the latter; cf. in any case iota 368.
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88
Ἤδη
by this time
… Porphyrius, Life of Pythagoras 45; the scholia to Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
56.
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367
Ἰνάχειον ἄστυ
Inacheian town, Inachian town
i.e.
Argos
[Myth, Place]; cf. iota 453. For Inachos, a river and river-god, see generally OCD(4) s.v. Inachus. The headword phrase is Tragica adespota fr. 563.
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191
Κάλαϊς
Kalais, Calais
… sons of Boreas (see under beta 390). cf. Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica
1.211ff. [2] Blue-green. [3] Purportedly an abbreviated phrase from Aeschylus, Agamemnon 923, but the text there has the noun ka/llesin, not the Suda's …
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