Argonautical

English Adjective - Of or pertaining to the Argonauts. en Argonautic en Ductor Historicus: or, a short system of Universal History and an Introduction to the Study of it Thomas Hearne 1714 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. en Old Californian Days 150 James William Steele 1893 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. Beauty 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. en Granddaughter of the Sun: A Study of Euripides’ Medea 94 Cecelia Eaton Luschnig 2007 twice she slew the dragon, saved the Argonautical adventure, and killed the usurping king Pelias.