in antiquity, a ship or vessel celebrated among the poets; being that wherein the Argonauts, of whom Jason was the chief, made their expedition in quest of the golden fleece. Jason having happily accomplished his enterprise, consecrated the ship Argo to Neptune; or, as others say, to Minerva, in the isthmus of Corinth; where, they add, it did not remain long before it was translated into heaven, and evade a cometiation. The generality of authors represent the ship Argo as of a long make, resembling the modern galleys; and furnished with thirty benches of rowers. It could not, however, be of any great bulk, since the Argonauts were able to carry it on their backs from the Danube to the Adriatic sea.