an ancient name of Peloponnesus; from Argos, one of the kings, (Homer, Strabo).

capital, and an inland town, of Argolis. It had different surnames; as Achaeum, from the country, or an ancient people, (Homer); Inachium, from the river Inachus, which runs by, (Pliny); &c. It had two citadels, (Livy); the one called Larissa, (Strabo); the other unnamed. At the siege of this city, Pyrrhus king of Epirus was killed by a tile thrown by an old woman. Argos was 26 stadia distant from Temenium, a maritime town, and 50 to the south of Mycenae: Now Argos. E. Long. 23.

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ARGOS Hippium, the ancient name of Arpi; but Lampe is a still more ancient; afterwards called Argrippa, and Argippa; built by, and the residence of, Diomedes, on the Cercus, (Virgil); afterwards a large and populous city, (Livy): A town of Apulia; now in ruins, and the place called Arpe.