Arganthonius
Ἀργανθώνιος
(Ἀργανθώνιος), king of Tartessus in Spain, in the sixth century B. C., received in the most friendly manner the Phocaeans who sailed to his city, and gave them money in order that they might fortify their city. He is said to have reigned 80 years. and to have lived 120. (Hdt. 1.163; Strab. iii. p.151; Lucian, Macrob. 10; Cic. de Senect. 19; Plin. Nat. 7.48; V. Max. 8.13, ext. 4.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.