Anaxibia
Americannoun
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a daughter of Atreus and Aërope, and the sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus.
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the wife of Nestor.
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And according to Hesiod, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes and Cleolla the daughter of Dias.
From Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard)
With Anaxibia, Alcestis came, A warm flush spreading o'er her eager face In looking on the rider of the woods, And knowing him her suitor and the king.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma
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