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Agave

Agave · f

A daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia

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What it meant

ăgāvē — Lewis & Short

ăgāvē or ăgauē, ēs, f., = *)agau/h.

I A daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, wife of Echion, king of Thebes, who tore in pieces with her own hands her son Pentheus, because he cast contempt upon the orgies of Bacchus, Ov. M. 3, 725; Hyg. Fab. 184 and 240.—
II One of the Nereids, Hyg. praef. ad Fab.—
III One of the Amazons, Hyg. Fab. 163.

Where it came from

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