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  • adjective Pertaining to the mythical ship Argo.

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Argo +‎ -an

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Examples

  • Then leaving the Stoechades they passed on to the island Aethalia, where after their toil they wiped away with pebbles sweat in abundance; and pebbles like skin in colour are strewn on the beach31; and there are their quoits and their wondrous armour; and there is the Argoan harbour called after them.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Stoechades they passed on to the island Aethalia, where after their toil they wiped away with pebbles sweat in abundance; and pebbles like skin in colour are strewn on the beach; [1404] and there are their quoits and their wondrous armour; and there is the Argoan harbour called after them.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Then leaving the Stoechades they passed on to the island Aethalia, where after their toil they wiped away with pebbles sweat in abundance; and pebbles like skin in colour are strewn on the beach [2]; and there are their quoits and their wondrous armour; and there is the Argoan harbour called after them.

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

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