Meaning of Argonautical | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to the Argonauts.

not-comparable

Examples

“So Hercules Thebanus, Son of Amphitruo, Son of Alcæus, will have for his Son one who was also, after his Great-Grandfather, called Alcæus, begotten of a Servant Maid of Jardanus, some short time after the Argonautical Expedition, in Memory whereof his Son might be called Argon.”

“They are nearly all "heeled." That is a phrase of Argonautical invention which saves tedious explanation, which means in Texas that one is armed, and in California that he has money.”

“In the city of Troy, whither our Argonautical voyages had carried us, we found Helen and that lamentable Cressid who was to Chaucer the feminine paradox, untenably fantastic but so devastatingly actual, the crystal ideal—flawed; and to Shakespeare the inevitable trull, flayed to show her physiological machinery and the logical conclusion of every the most heartrendingly ingenuous gesture of maidenhood.”

“[…] twice she slew the dragon, saved the Argonautical adventure, and killed the usurping king Pelias.”

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