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|etymtx=n.<br />Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: name of several towns, the best known being the capital of Argolis (Il.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">Ἀργεῖοι</b>, sg. <b class="b3">-ος</b> <b class="b2">people of Argos</b> (Il.); from here Lat. [[Argīvī]] (after [[Achīvī]] ). <b class="b3">᾽Αργόλις</b> (<b class="b3">γῆ</b>).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained, certainly pre-Greek. Strabo 8. 6. 9 says the word means <b class="b3">πεδίον</b> in younger writers (cf. Call. fr. 299), and is esp. Macedonian and Thessalian. S. Kalléris Anc. Mac. 106-8; Bonfante, Riv. di Filol. 97 (1969) 187. Note the <b class="b2">s-</b>stem but the o-stem in Argolis. | |etymtx=n.<br />Grammatical information: n.<br />Meaning: name of several towns, the best known being the capital of Argolis (Il.).<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">Ἀργεῖοι</b>, sg. <b class="b3">-ος</b> <b class="b2">people of Argos</b> (Il.); from here Lat. [[Argīvī]] (after [[Achīvī]] ). <b class="b3">᾽Αργόλις</b> (<b class="b3">γῆ</b>).<br />Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]<br />Etymology: Unexplained, certainly pre-Greek. Strabo 8. 6. 9 says the word means <b class="b3">πεδίον</b> in younger writers (cf. Call. fr. 299), and is esp. Macedonian and Thessalian. S. Kalléris Anc. Mac. 106-8; Bonfante, Riv. di Filol. 97 (1969) 187. Note the <b class="b2">s-</b>stem but the o-stem in Argolis. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=<br />[[name]] of [[several]] Greek cities, of [[which]] the Peloponnesian is the [[best]] [[known]], called by Hom. Ἀ. Ἀχαιικόν, to [[distinguish]] it from Ἀ. Πελασγικόν. The [[former]] [[name]] comprehends all [[Argolis]]; the [[latter]], all [[Thessaly]]. | |||
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