ARGONAUTIC EXPEDITION. See THESSALY, (Encycl.) This celebrated voyage, which is the first epoch in the Grecian history upon which any stress can be laid, was undertaken, according to Archbishop Usher and the authors of the Universal History, 1280 B. C. Dr Blair places it 1263; and Sir Isaac Newton and Dr Priestley 936 years before the same period; but all chronologists agree in fixing this enterprise near a century before the Trojan war.
Dr Bryant rejects the history of the Argonautic expedition as a Grecian fable, founded indeed on a tradition.
Arillus, dition derived from Egypt, and ultimately referring to Armstrong. Noah's preservation, &c. in the ark.