Argos
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views updated May 21 2018Argos a city in the NE Peloponnese of
Greece. One of the oldest cities of ancient Greece, it dominated the Peloponnese and the western Aegean in the 7th century
bc.
Argive, a citizen of Argos, is used especially in
Homer to mean Greek.
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ELIZABETH KNOWLES