something belonging to the Argonauts.

The Argonautic expedition is one of the greatest epochs or periods of history which Sir Isaac Newton endeavours to settle, and from thence to rectify the ancient chronology. This he shows, by several authorities, to have been one generation or about 30 years earlier than the taking of Troy, and 43 years later than the death of Solomon. See CHRONOLOGY.

Dr Bryant, however, rejects the history of the Argonautic expedition as a Grecian fable, founded indeed on a tradition derived from Egypt, and ultimately referring to Noah's preservation, &c., in the ark. But although we are not to believe all the romantic stories which poets, and even some grave historians, have told us of these famous adventurers, yet it seems unreasonable to discredit entirely the Argonautic expedition. See ARGONAUTS.