Template:Short description Template:Distinguish Argius (Template:Langx) was a sculptor of ancient Greece who was the disciple of Polykleitos, and therefore flourished about 388 BCE.<ref>Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.19</ref>

The 19th century classical scholar Friedrich Thiersch supposed that Pliny the Elder, in the words "Argius, Asopodorus," mis-translated his Greek authority, which had Ἀργεῖος Ἀσωπόδωρος, or "Asopodorus the Argive."<ref>Friedrich Thiersch, Epochen, p. 275</ref> But "Argius" is found as a Greek proper name in both the forms, Ἄργιος and Ἀργεῖος.<ref>Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1.5</ref><ref>Aristoph. Eccl. 201</ref>

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