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rons edifices, the theatre, the gymnafiurn, the temples, and 
monuments, which it once boafted, contending even with 
Aiiiens in antiquity, and in favours conferred by the gods. 
Argos Amphilochicum, a city of Acarnania; its 
territory Amphilochia, fituated on the eaft fide of the Si¬ 
nus Ambraicus, diflant 180 ftadia to the fouth-eaft of Am- 
bracia. Polybius. Alfo called Argia Amphilochis ; Amphi- 
loci and Amphilochici, the people. The name is from Am- 
phiiochus, fon of Amphiaraus ; and from- Argos, the name 
of his country, in Peloponnefus. Thucydides. 
Argos Hippium, the ancient name of Arpi; but 
Lampe is a ff ill more ancient; afterwards called Argyrippa, 
and Argippa\ built by, and the refidence of, Diomedes, on 
tire Cerbalus, afterwards a large and populous city. Livy. 
A town of Apulia ; now in ruins, and the place called Arpi. 
Argos Pelasgicum, an appellation denoting Thefla- 
ly ; fo called from the Pelafgi. Homer. 
Argos Portus, a port ofTtifcany; now Porto Ferra¬ 
ro, in the north of the ifland Elba. Lat. 42. 35. N. Ion. 
j 1, 30. E. 
ARGOS'TOLI, a fea-port in the ifland of Cephaloni, 
and the beft in the ifland, the refidence of a proveditor; 
the port is large, but the anchorage not firm. It is eight 
miles weft-fouth-weft of Cephaloni. 
AR'GOSY,/. [derived by Pope from Argo, the name of 
Jafon’s (hip; fuppofed by others to be a velfel of Ragufa 
or Ragofa, a Ragozine, corrupted.] A large veil'd for mer- 
chandife; a carrack : 
Your mind is toffing on the ocean ; 
There where your argofies, with portly fail, 
Like figniors and rich burghers on the flood, 
Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shakefpcare. 
ARGOU'GES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Channel, four leagues fouth of Avranches. 
ARGOVv'’' or Argau', a country of Swilferland, fitu¬ 
ated on the river Aar, including a conliderable part of the 
canton of Berne, and confifcated to that (late by the ex- 
communication of Frederic duke of Aullria, and (ince 
confirmed by bis fucceflors. 
AR'GU, a town of Syria, five miles fouth-eaft of Da- 
mafeus. 
D AR'GUE, ».n. larguc, Lat.} Toreafon; to offer 
reafons.—An idea of motion, not palling on, would per¬ 
plex any one, who fhould argue from fuch an idea. Locke. 
.—To perfuade by argument.—It is a fort of poetical lo¬ 
gic which 1 would make ufe of, to argue you into a pro¬ 
tection of this play. Congreve. —To difpute; with the par¬ 
ticles with or againjl before the opponent, and againjl be¬ 
fore the tiling oppofed. — He that by often arguing againjl 
his own fenfe impofes falfehoods on others, is not far from 
believing himfelf. Locke. — 1 do not fee how they can argue 
with any one, without felting down ftriCt boundaries. 
Locke. 
To Argue, v. a. To prove any thing by argument. To 
debate any queflion ; as, To argue a caufe. To prove, as 
an argument.—It argues dillemper of the mind as well as 
of the body, when a man is continually tolling from one 
fide to-the other. South. —To charge with, as a crime: 
with of. —I have pleaded guilty to all thoughts and expref- 
fions of mine, which can be truly argued o/'obfeenity, pro. 
fanenefsj or immorality, and retraCl them. Dry den. 
ARGUE'D AS, a town of Spain, in Navarre, two leagues 
and a half from Tudeila. 
ARGU'ETL, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Seine, and chief place of a canton-, in the dif- 
tvifl of Gournay, fix leagues north-eaft of Rouen, and 
Three weft-north-weft of Gournay. 
AR'GUER, f. A reafoner; adifputer; acontrovqrtift. 
_Men are alhamed to be profelytes to a weak arguer, as 
thinking they muft-partwith their reputation as well as their 
f tn .—Neither good Chriftians nor good arguers ■ Atterbury. 
AR'GUIN, an ifland on the coaft of Negroland, in Af¬ 
rica, about flxteen miles diflant from cape Blanco, fltua- 
ted ’in lat. 20. 30.N. Ion. 17. 20. W. It is fcarcely two 
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miles in length ; notwithstanding, it was a bone of con¬ 
tention for eighty-feven years between the Portugucfe, 
Dutch, Englilh, and French. It was firft difeovered by 
the Portuguefe in 1444, in confequence of which a fort 
was erected on the ifland, and the Portuguefe enjoyed the 
peaceable pofielTion of it till 1638. At this time the Dutch 
refolved to attack it; and accordingly landed without mo- 
leftation from thegarrifon, which was too weak to oppofe 
them. The Dutch immediately fet about repairing the 
fortifications, and fecuring it in the beft manner they could : 
however, in 1665, the fort was reduced almoft to a heap of 
rubbifii by an Englilh- fquadron; but, as the fortifications 
were totally dellroyed, and only a final) garrilon left there, 
it was retaken by the Dutch the next year. They now 
redoubled their diligence in (Lengthening the ifland, en¬ 
tering into alliance with Moorilh chiefs, procuring a num¬ 
ber of families to fettle under the protediion of the fort, 
and giving extravagant prices for gums, witli a view to 
monopolize the gum-trade. By this means the-gum-trade 
of the French Senegal company was almoft ruined ; upon 
‘which they fitted out a fquadron, difpolfelfed the Dutch, and 
had the ifland finally ceded to them by the treaty of Ninie- 
guen. Though the Dutch feemed now to be firm 11 y ex¬ 
pelled, they yet refolved not to part with fuch-a valuable 
fettlement. Under pretence of being fubjedls of the eledlor 
of Brandenburg, they rebuilt one of the forts which had 
been demolilhed, and there maintained tliemfelves in fpite 
of the utmoft endeavours of the French company to dif- 
polfefs them. In 1717, however, the French company fit¬ 
ted out a new fquadron ; but this armament did not arrive 
at Arguin before Feb. 26, 1721. The Dutch defended 
themfelves with fuch intrepidity and conduft as had al¬ 
moft baffled the utmoft efforts of the French; but the lat¬ 
ter having found means to draw off a Moorifh chief from 
his allegiance, the Dutch were obliged to evacuate Ar¬ 
guin, and retire to Portendic, where they fortified them¬ 
felves, determining to watch, a favourable opportunity for 
recovering the fettlement. This very foon happened, by 
means of the weaknefs of the garrifon, and the imprudence 
of Duval, the French director; who, having quarrelled 
with the Moors, was furprifed, defeated, and killed, by 
them ; in eonfequer.ee of which, the fettlement fell again 
into the hands of the Dutch, on the nth of January, 1722. 
In 1723, the Dutch were attacked by another French fquad¬ 
ron, under the command of the fleur Rigua-diere. This 
gentleman boafted that the fort could not hold out one day; 
but he was fhamefully repulfed, and forced to raife the 
liege with precipitation. The Dutch, however, did not 
long remain in peace ; for, in 1725, their fort was entirely 
demolilhed by the French under Du Caffe. The Dutch, 
however, are ftill tire polfelfors of it. 
AR'GUMENT,/. [ argumentum , Lat. } A reafon alleged 
for or again!! any thing .—We fonae times fee, on our thea¬ 
tres, vice rewarded, at leal! unpuniflied ; yet-it ought not 
to be an argument again!! the art. Dryden. —The fubjedi of 
any difeourfe or writing : 
To the height of this great argument 
I may albert eternal providence, 
And-jollify tile ways of God to man. Milton-. 
The contents of any work fumrned up by way of abftradb. 
■—The argument oi the work, that is, its principal adlion, 
the economy and difpofition of it, are the things which 
diftinguilh copies from originals. Dryden. —A controverfy. 
— If the idea be not agreed on betwixt the fpeaker and 
hearer, the argument is not about things, but names. .Locke*. 
—It has fometimes the particle to before the tiling to be 
proved, but generallyybr.—The beft moral argument to pa¬ 
tience, in my opinion, is the advantage of patience itfelf. 
Tillctfon. —This, before that revelation had enlightened the 
world, was the very beft argument for a future liate.. Atter- 
bury .— -I n aftronomy, an arch by which we- leek another 
unknown arch, proportional to tire firft. 
Argument of Inclination, in aftronomy, is the 
arch of the orb of a planet, which is comprehended be¬ 
tween 
