Definitions for Erigone

Erigone E·rig·o·ne

Spelling: [ih-rig-uh-nee]
IPA: /ɪˈrɪg əˌni/

Erigone is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in Erigone (eeginor).

Definitions for Erigone

noun

  1. a daughter of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus who hanged herself when Orestes was acquitted of the murder of her parents.

Examples for Erigone

Erigone was gone in the night, and Fabia went to her chamber.

Dionysus sent a plague on the land, and all the maidens of Athens, in a fit of madness, hanged themselves like Erigone.

Do you shrug your shoulders at that, son of the pious Erigone?

The legs of Erigone are only moderately long, and they walk easily, like the small Drassidæ.

The spider, it appears, is an "undescribed species of Erigone," and the larvæ are probably lepidopterous.

The festival called Aeora (the “swing”) was subsequently instituted to propitiate Icarius and Erigone.

His daughter Erigone was led to his grave by his dog Maera, and hanged herself on the tree under which he lay.

Erigone, guided by her faithful dog Maera, found his grave, and hanged herself on the tree.

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