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| AGAVE | |
| Form: Gr. Agaue. | |
| Daugther of Cadmus and wife of Echion. She, with other women, in a bacchanalian frenzy tore to pieces her own son Pentheus (q.v.). | |
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| AGAVE WITH THE HEAD OF PENTHEUS.(Gem in British Museum.) |
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