Arganthonius
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
De legendis gentilium libris
Legendarily long-lived king, invoked as inadequate beside eternal life.
But I, even if one should name the old age of Tithonus, or of Arganthonius, or of the longest-lived among us, Methuselah, who is said to have lived a thousand years lacking thirty, or should measure out the whole time since men have existed, will laugh as at the thoughts of children, looking to the long and ageless eternity, of which it is no more possible for the mind to grasp an end than to supp …
The Histories
Long-reigning king of Tartessus in Iberia who befriends the Phocaeans and funds the wall of their city.
Arganthonius was by this time dead.
When they came to Tartessus they made friends with the king of the Tartessians, whose name was Arganthonius;
for the circuit of the wall is of not a few stades, and all this is made of great stones well fitted together.