Argolis
noun
an ancient district in southeastern Greece.
Argolic
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a word derived from
Argolis.
Example Sentences
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Ten miles away to the southward rise the red rocky hills of Ægina, Athens' old island enemy; and the tawny headlands of the Argolic coasts are visible yet farther across he horizon.
From A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis
In the period of the kings the legion was the old Greek phalanx with Greek armour; the front ranks wore the Greek panoply and fought with long spears and the circular Argolic shield.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
Between the isles of Cyprus and Majorca Neptune ne'er yet beheld so great a crime, Neither of pirates nor Argolic people.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
But Romulus adopted the large oblong Sabine shield, and gave up the round Argolic shields which he and the Romans had formerly carried.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Aubrey Stewart
The dialect of the Inachus valley seems to resemble Laconian more closely than does that of the rest of the Argolic area.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
