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Arisbe

Arisbe can be:
*Another name for Batea, a person in Greek Mythology
*An early (pre-Hecuba) wife of King Priam of Troy, also from Greek Mythology
*In Homer's Iliad, a city in the Troad. It is mentioned three times. In Book II, where Asius is described leading Trojan troops from Arisbe and other Hellespontine cities; in Book VI, in which an account of the slaying of Axylus is given, who lived in 'well-built Arisbe'; and in Book XXI, in which Eëtion sends Lycaon to Arisbe after ransoming him.
*Charles S. Peirce's house, which he named Arisbe, inspired to do so by the account of Axylus, who welcomed all passers-by into his house in Arisbe.
*a species group of Owl Butterflies



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