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been eftabli/h'd by Cecrofs, about the Time that Aaron di- ed, viz. in the Year of the World 2553, maintaining with- al, that Solon only made fome new Regulations in it. — In effect, Demofthenes himfelf, in his Oration againft Cteftpho, owns himfelf at a Lofs on the Point: the Iu/litulors of this Tribunal, fays he, whatever they were, whether Gods or Heroes.

Areometer, 1 r Araeometer,

Areostyle, \ fee X Arjeostyle,

Areotiks, J I Arjeoticks.

ARGAL, or Argee, hard Lees {ticking to the Sides of Wine-Veffels ; otherwifc called 'tartar. See Tartar.

ARGENTUM Album, mentioned in Domefday, figni- fies Bullion, or Silver uncoined. See Bullion.

In thofe antient Days, fucn paffed as Money from one to another in Payment' — Smnitur pro iffo hoe Metallo pcnflli non Si'^nato. Spelm. See Silver and Money.

ARGENTUM 'Dei, God's 'Penny ; antiently fignificd camejl Money, or Money given to bind a Eargain ; in fome Places called Erles, or rles. Sec Earnest.

Et cepit de pr<edic~lo Henrico tres denarios de Argenro Dei free manihus. See Convention.

ARGEA, Argjea, or Ap.gei, in Antiquity, human Fi- gures made of Rufhcs, thrown annually by the Veftals into the River Tyler, on the Day of the Ides of May. See Vestal.

This Ceremony we learn from Feflus and Varro 5 the latter of whom, however, fays they were cafl: by the Priefts : Unlefs, by Sacerdotilus, wc fuppofe he meant Prieftelfes. He adds that the Number of Figures was thirty — ■

Plutarch, in his Roman Qucftions, enquires, Why they were called Argea ? There are two Reafons affigned : The firft, that the barbarous Nation who firft inhabited thefe Parts, cat! all the Greeks they could meet withal, into the iTyber ; for Argians was a common Name for all Grecians: But that Hercules perfuaded them to quit fo inhuman a Practice, and to purge themlelves of the Crime, by insti- tuting this Solemnity — The fecond, that Evander, an Arca- dian, arid a fworn Enemy of the Argians, to perpetuate that Enmity to his Pofterity, ordcr'd the Figures of Argi- ans to be thus caft into the River. — ■

ARGENT, in Heraldry, fignifies the Colour White, ufed in the Coats of Gentlemen, Knights, and Baronets. See Colour and White.

Barons and all Nobles have the white Colour call'd Pearly and fovereign Princes have theirs called Luna.

Without either this or Or, the Heralds fay there can be no good Armory. See Or.

Argent is exprefled in Engraving, by the Parts being left plain, without any Strokes from the Graver. The Word is French, derived from the Latin Argentum, Silver ; this Colour being fuppofed the Reprefcntation of that Metal :

Whence the Spaniards call this Field Camto de'!>i„ Silver Field. * ' u '■"", i

In the doubling of Mantles, where the White isfun w rj to repfefent a Fur, arid not a Metal, it may be bla,„M White. . y ii01,J

ARGILLA, or Argil, a white Earth, like Chall; K more brittle; of fome Ut'c in Phyfick. See Earth, Ch'a ' c£f. LR »

The Word is fometimes alfo ufed for Potters Earth Clay. Sec Pottery, Clay, ££r. ' or

ARGO, in Antiquity, a Ship or VcfTel ccfebrated am the Poets ; being that wherein the Argonauts made th'.°^ Expedition. Sec Argonaut. CIr

The Criticks are divided about the Origin of the Nam Some will have it thus called from the Perfon who built'^ Argus ; others, from the Greek Word Ar^os, fwift as u"' ingalightSailcf; others, from the City Argos, where th fuppole it built: Others, from the Argives, who went ? board it, according to the Dillich quoted from an ami, Latin Poet by Cicero, in his firft Tulculan ;

Argo, quia Argivi in ea "DelcBi Viri VeBi, feteliant pcllem iuauratmi Arietis.

Ovid calls Argo a facrcd Ship, faerdni eoitfcendis in A r gum; by reafon, fay fome, that Minerva contrived the PL. and even aflifted in the building thereof : Or rather on a count of a piece of Timber in its Prow, which fpoke anil render d Oracles— Several Authors make mention of th Piece of Timber, which is faid to have been hewn in th, iacred Foreft oiDodona. See Oracle and Dodonean

Jafon having happily accompli/lied his Entcrprize con fecrated the Ship Argo to Neptune, in the Ifthmus of Co" rinth ; where it did not remain long before it was tranfla ted into Heaven, and made a Conflellation. See Consti ;'

LATION. L *

The Generality of Authors reprefent the Ship Ano as of a long Make, refembling the modern Gallies— The Scho haft of Apollomus obferves, that it was the firft lono Vcffi-i ever made : And prelates the fame, after Phibficpbl mis, who had affirmed, that Jafon was the firft that trulW out to Sea in a long Veflel : Longa Nave Jafonem primum Navigaffe, PbiloflefbamiS AuBor eft. Hifi Nat 1  Ma g™<"^. {fc whereof,

Stars in the Conflellation Argo or Navis.

Names and Situations of the Stars. Priced, under the Shield in the Stern Between the Sail and Lactea

Subfeq. under the Shield of the Stern

5-

South, in the Middle of the Stern

North, in the Middle of the Stern

10.

Pntced. in the Top of the Stern

Priced, of two in the Yard Subfeq. in the Top of the Stern

15- Inform, under the Sail, Tycho

In the Sail, Tycho

Subfeq. in the Yard

In the Maft, the loweft of three, tychs In the Maft, upper Middle in the Maft

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ARGONAUTS,