Crossword clues for argive
argive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Argive \Ar"give\, a. [L. Argivus, fr. Argos, Argi.] Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece. -- n. A native of Argos. Often used as a generic term, equivalent to Grecian or Greek. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"of Argos," hence, especially in Homeric usage, "the Greeks," as a byword for Achaean (he describes Agamemnon as king of Argos), 1520s, from Latin Argivus, from Greek Argeios "of Argos."
Usage examples of "argive".
Argive ships and that little Astyanax, whom his father and I had called Scamandrius, was to be their yearly heiffer chosen for sacrifice.
Backing over and over, the Argives gave ground, seeing the lord of battles lead the Trojan onset.
Argive King Danaus were condemned to pouring water into a container down in Hades that was full of holes.
Inevitable glide the allotted years, And Dardan roofs must waste in Argive flame.
Instead of ignoble death and defeat this day, our sons and allies are but hours away from seeing the head of our enemy, Agamemnon, lifted high on a spike, while our Thracians and Trojans and Pelasgians and Cicones and Paeonians and Paphlagonians and Halizonians have lived to watch the end of this long war at last, and soon will be raking up the gold of defeated Argives, soon will be sweeping up the well-earned armor of Agamemnon and his men.
Melampus the seer cures the madness of the Argive women and receives one third of Proetus kingdom and his brother Bias another third.
Argives, desperate, had no choice, they struggled now to defend the ships, and the gods were cast down in spirit, all who had urged the Argive soldiers on in battle .
But the ocean king who grips and shakes the earth, rising up from the offshore swell, urged the Argives, taking the build and tireless voice of Calchas.
Argives, still another name for the Achaeans, the Danaans, the damned Greeks with so many names, were in no position to hand over more booty to their leader now.
Achaeans and Argives and all the rest surge back into formation behind their captains, horses are re-tethered to chariots, chariots are driven out across the earth-bridges still spanning the defensive trenches, and the battle is on again.
With his grievances aired anew, Achilles goes on to question why his Myrmidons and the Achaeans and the Argives should even be fighting this war.
Chapter XVI Feeling against Sparta in Peloponnese - League of the Mantineans, Eleans, Argives, and Athenians - Battle of Mantinea and breaking up of the League After the treaty and the alliance between the Lacedaemonians and Athenians, concluded after the ten years' war, in the ephorate of Pleistolas at Lacedaemon, and the archonship of Alcaeus at Athens, the states which had accepted them were at peace.
Even so did I grieve when mighty Hector was killing the Argives at their ships, and all the time I kept thinking of Folly who had so baned me.
Braun stared into his display, watching the battlecruisers as Argive swung directly away from them.
That many battlecruisers should have torn Argive to bits - not that he intended to complain!