Argentina, (Notitia); Argentoratum, (Ptolemy); Argentoratus, (Amman); a city of the Tribocci; one of the fifty forts built by Drutus 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 garrisons that infested the roads. Now Strasbourg, in Lower Alsace, on the rivulet Ill, near the Rhine. E. Long. 7. 35. N. Lat. 48° 38'.