Argi (plural, masculine). See: [Argos].
Argīa, daughter of Adrastus, married Polynices, whom she loved with uncommon tenderness. When he was killed in the war, she buried his body in the night, against the positive orders of Creon, for which pious action she was punished with death. Theseus revenged her death by killing Creon. Hyginus, fables 69 & 72.—Statius, Thebiad, bk. 12. See: [Antigone] and [Creon].——A country of Peloponnesus, called also Argolis, of which Argos was the capital.——One of the Oceanides. Hyginus, preface.——The wife of Inachus, and mother of Io. Hyginus, fable 145.——The mother of Argos by Polybus. Hyginus, fable 145.——A daughter of Autesion, who married Aristodemus, by whom she had two sons, Eurysthenes and Procles. Apollodorus, bk. 2.—Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 3.
Argias, a man who founded Chalcedon, A.U.C. 148.
Argilētum, a place at Rome near the Palatium, where the tradesmen generally kept their shops. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 8, li. 355.—Martial, bk. 1, ltr. 4.
Argilius, a favourite youth of Pausanias, who revealed his master’s correspondence with the Persian king to the Ephori. Cornelius Nepos, Pausanias.
Argillus, a mountain of Egypt near the Nile.
Argĭlus, a town of Thrace near the Strymon, built by a colony of Andrians. Thucydides, bk. 4, ch. 103.—Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 115.
Arginūsæ, three small islands near the continent, between Mitylene and Methymna, where the Lacedæmonian fleet was conquered by Conon the Athenian. Strabo, bk. 13.
Argiŏpe, a nymph of mount Parnassus, mother of Thamyris by Philammon the son of Apollo. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 33.
Argiphontes, a surname given to Mercury, because he killed the hundred-eyed Argus, by order of Jupiter.