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AGENOR(ES). Agenor, king of Tyre, was the father of Cadmus and Europa. Jupiter fell in love with Europa and wooed her in the form of a white bull. She playfully leaped on his back, and he ran off with her to Crete (Met II.834-875; OM II.4937-5084).

The beast carrying off Agenor's daughter was adorned with daisies, LGW F 114. Ovid says that the garland was made of fresh flowers, sertis novis, Met II.867-868. [Cadme: Europe]

Agenores is the ME genitive case.

Ovid, Met, ed. and trans. F.J. Miller, I: 118-121; OM, ed. C. de Boer, I, deel 15: 276-279.
From CHAUCER NAME DICTIONARY
Copyright © 1988, 1996 Jacqueline de Weever
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