Agēnor, oris, m., = Ἀγήνωρ, a son of Belus, king of Phaenicia, father of Cadmus and Europa, and ancestor of Dido; hence, poet., Agenoris urbs, i. e. Carthage, Verg. A. 1, 338.

—Agenore natus, i. e. Cadmus, Ov. M. 3, 51; 97; 257.

—Whence, derivv. Agēnoreus, a, um, adj., pertaining to Agenor: bos, i. e. Jupiter, who, in the form of a bull, carried off Europa, the daughter of Agenor, Ov. F. 6, 712: aena, Phaenician, Sil. 7, 642; cf. Mart. 10, 16.

—Also for Carthaginian (cf. Agenor), Sil. 1, 14: nepotes, i.e. the Carthaginians, id. 17, 404: ductor, i.e. Hannibal, id. 17, 392.

— Agēnoridēs, ae, patr. m., a male descendant of Agenor. His son Cadmus, Ov. M. 3, 8; so id. ib. 3, 81; 90; 4, 562; id. P. 1, 3, 77.

— Perseus, whose grandfather, on the mother's side, Danaus, was descended from Agenor, Ov. M. 4, 771.