the Argives
quoted 6 times by 5 works · as a person
Most often reported — someone's speech given in report. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
2 quoted · 4 reported
6 neutralin the voice of Agamemnon 1 , Nestor 1 , People in the Assembly 1 , Spartan envoys 1 , Xerxes (via herald) 1
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in the voice of People in the Assembly
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For the Liberty of the Rhodians Demosthenes 2 neutral 2 citations · 1 passage
The passage reports statements heard in the Assembly.
I have repeatedly heard it said in this Assembly that when misfortune befell our democracy, there were some people who urged that it should be restored, and of them I will here mention the Argives only, and that briefly.
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Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage reports a specific historical incident involving the Argives, functioning as reported narrative used as evidence.
whereas those who have been deceived as to the danger, if they learn or suspect the true state of affairs, take to flight, as the Argives did when they encountered the Lacedaemonians and thought they were Sicyonians.
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in the voice of Xerxes (via herald)
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The Histories Herodotus 1 neutral 1 citation
The herald's message on Xerxes' behalf to Argos is presented as direct quoted speech.
“Men of Argos, this is the message to you from King Xerxes.
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in the voice of Agamemnon
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Iliad Homer 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
Agamemnon addresses his troops directly, invoking the broken oaths as justification for the coming fight.
You would not have then found Agamemnon asleep nor cowardly and unwilling to fight, but eager rather for the fray.
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in the voice of Nestor
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Odyssey Homer 1 neutral 1 citation
Nestor's calming words to the Achaeans are reported speech embedded inside Agamemnon's own speech.
They would have fled panic-stricken to their ships had not wise old Nestor whose counsel was ever truest checked them saying, ‘Hold, Argives, flee not sons of the Achaeans, this is his mother coming from the sea with her immortal nymphs to view the body of her son.
book 24 ¶
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