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Example sentences from the Web for ArgonautsIt was the name of the ship that Jason and the Argonauts sailed in to liberate the Golden Fleece against impossible odds. The True Story Behind Operation ‘Argo’ to Rescue Americans From Iran|Antonio Mendez, Matt Baglio|September 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST The other Argonauts married such maids as were left unmarried, and they did well to do so. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 29. August, 1873.|Various And where in all Greece could he find one stronger or more famous than the chief of the Argonauts? Medea of Euripides|Euripides It was a journey of Argonauts, one of the thousands of journeys that made picturesque a whole epoch. A History of American Literature Since 1870|Fred Lewis Pattee
He was physician to the Argonauts in their famous expedition to Colchis. 1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described|Edward S. Ellis If I were to tell you all the adventures of the Argonauts, it would take me till nightfall, and perhaps a great deal longer. Tanglewood Tales|Nathaniel Hawthorne
In classical mythology, the companions of Jason in the quest for the Golden Fleece. Their ship was the Argo. notes for ArgonautsNaut means “sailor” in Greek and is the root of our word nautical. Today, the word is used to coin terms such as astronaut and aquanaut. Words nearby ArgonautsArgo, argol, Argolis, argon, Argonaut, Argonauts, Argonne, Argonne Forest, argonon, Argos, argosy The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |