argive means of, from or pertaining to Argos. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 83 out of 100.
adj
- Of, from or pertaining to Argos.
- Greek.“[…] And many an old philosophy
On Argive heights divinely sang,
And round us all the thicket rang
To many a flute of Arcady.”
noun
- An inhabitant of Argos.“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 in”
- In the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey, and in later classical epics, an alternate name for an Achaean, or Greek in general.