This name was derived from one of its early kings, Cranaus.
125 -- _The martial maid._ In the original, "Minerva Alalcomeneis," _i.e.
the defender,_ so called from her temple at Alalcomene in Boeotia.
126 "Anything for a quiet life!" 127 -- _Argos._ The worship of Juno at Argos was very celebrated in ancient times, and she was regarded as the patron deity of that city.Apul.Met., vi.p.

453; Servius on Virg.AEn., i.

28.
128 -- _A wife and sister._ "But I, who walk in awful state above The majesty of heav'n, the sister-wife of Jove." Dryden's "Virgil," i.

70.
So Apuleius, _l.

c._ speaks of her as "Jovis germana et conjux, and so Horace, Od.iii.3, 64, "conjuge me Jovis et sorore." 129 "Thither came Uriel, gleaming through the even On a sunbeam, swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night, when vapours fired Impress the air, and shows the mariner From what point of his compass to beware Impetuous winds." -- "Paradise Lost," iv.