Inachus

If you come down over the mountains from Corinth, as soon as you reach the head of the valley of the Inachus, which is the plain of Argos, you turn aside to the left, or east, into a secluded corner -- "a recess of the horse-feeding Argos," as

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two 1885

And there's a further nice irony in this part of the story, because it turns out that we have what we have of many such works -- Sophocles 'lost play "Inachus" among them -- because of the thrifty Egyptian habit of using unwanted old papyrus manuscripts as wrapping paper for mummies.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

May he reach the goal! yea, and triumph o'er my sorrows, rescuing the gory corpse, the mother's idol and making the land of Inachus his friend by helping her.

The Suppliants 2008

But thee, will Argives crown, wreathing the lovely tresses of thy hair, like a dappled mountain hind brought from some rocky cave or a heifer undefiled, and staining with blood thy human throat; though thou wert never reared like these amid the piping and whistling of herdsmen, but at thy mother's side, to be decked one day by her as the bride of a son of Inachus.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

O ARGOS, ancient land, and streams of Inachus, whence on

Electra 2008

Parthenopaeus, a youth of peerless beauty; from Arcady he came even to the streams of Inachus, and in Argos spent his boyhood.

The Suppliants 2008

But thee, will Argives crown, wreathing the lovely tresses of thy hair, like a dappled mountain hind brought from some rocky cave or a heifer undefiled, and staining with blood thy human throat; though thou wert never reared like these amid the piping and whistling of herdsmen, but at thy mother's side, to be decked one day by her as the bride of a son of Inachus.

Iphigenia at Aulis 2008

'Tis safe, and all hath happened as I would it had befallen Adrastus and his Argives, whom from Inachus he led, to march against the city of the Cadmeans.

The Suppliants 2008

O ARGOS, ancient land, and streams of Inachus, whence on

Electra 2008

O Zeus, father to the child the heifer-mother bore in days long past, that daughter of Inachus!

The Suppliants 2008