place
Araxes
River of Armenia; in the Argo ode the Indian now 'drinks the cold Araxes.'
Reading notes
- Medea §364 the cold Araxes
A river of Armenia; that 'the Indian drinks the Araxes' images a world shrunk and boundary-less.
- Natural Questions §6.17.1 Araxes
The river of Armenia; Virgil (Aeneid 8.728) made it 'indignant at a bridge,' a type of an unbridgeable, surging stream.
- Oedipus §416 Araxes
A river of Armenia, snowy and swift; another bound of Bacchus's dominion.
- Phaedra §54 Araxes
River of Armenia, standing for the cold East.