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AGAVE
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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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