Argius

Argius was a sculptor of ancient Greece who was the disciple of Polykleitos, and therefore flourished about 388 BCE.^[1]

The 19th century classical scholar Friedrich Thiersch supposed that Pliny the Elder, in the words "Argius, Asopodorus," mis-translated his Greek authority, which had Ἀργεῖος Ἀσωπόδωρος, or "Asopodorus the Argive."^[2] But "Argius" is found as a Greek proper name in both the forms, Ἄργιος and Ἀργεῖος.^[3][4]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Argius". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 280.