Meaning of Argive | Babel Free

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1. An inhabitant of Argos.
2. In the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, and in later classical epics, an alternate name for an Achaean, or Greek in general.
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“The Greeks generally think that this fate came upon him because he induced the Pythoness to pronounce against Demaratus; the Athenians differ from all others in saying that it was because he cut down the sacred grove of the goddesses when he made his invasion by Eleusis; while the Argives ascribe it to his having taken from their refuge and cut to pieces certain argives who had fled from battle into a precinct sacred to Argus, where Cleomenes slew them, burning likewise at the same time, through irreverence, the grove itself.”

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