Argentina, (Notitiz); Argentoratum, (Ptolemy); Argentoratus, (Amianus); a city of the Tribocci; one of the fifty forts built by Drusus on the Rhine, (Florus): an appellation formed by the Romans from the German, Argen Straffen, or Straten, "unsafe roads for travellers," from the marauding parties of the garrifons that infested the roads. Now Strasbourg*, in the lower Alsace, on the rivulet Ill, near the Rhine. E. Long. 7. 35. Lat. 48. 38.