Argante (är-gan'te)

A giante in Spenser's Argentina (är-jen-te'nä; Sp. pron. är-Hen-te' "Faerie Queene," the personification of licentiousne . Argante (ar-gont'). The father of Octavia and Zerbinetta, in Molière's "Les Fourberies de Scapin." He is fooled into giving up his plans and falling into those of his son and daughter, by Scapin. Argantes (är-gan'tes). In Ta o's "Jerusalem Delivered," the bravest of the infidel knights. Argan thon i us (är-gan-thō'ni-us). [Gr. Άργανθώνιος.] In ancient geography, a mountain-ridge in Bithynia, Asia Minor, near the Pro pont is. Argel (är-Hel'). The Spanish name of Algiers. Argelander (är'ge-län-der), Fried rich Wilhelm August. Born at Memel, Pru ia, March 22, 1799: died at Bonn, Feb. 17, 1875. A noted German astronomer, profe or succe ively at Åbo, Helsingfors, and Bonn. He wrote various astronomical works, including "Uber die eigene Bewegung des Sonnensystems" (1837), and "Untersuchungen über die Eigenbewegung von 250 Sternen" (1869). Argenis (arje-nis). A romance by John Barclay, published in 1621: said to have been written in "rivalry of the Arcadia." Argenis is the daughter of King Meliander of Sicily, and the story consists in an account of the war waged for her hand by Lycogenes, a Sicilian rebel, and Poliarchus, prince of Gaul. We are informed in a Latin life of Barclay that it was a favorite work of Cardinal Richelieu, and suggested to him many of his political expedients. Cowper, the poet, recommends Argenis to his correspondents, Mr. Rose and Lady Hesketh, as "the most amusing romance that ever was written." "It is," says he in a letter to the former, "interesting in a high degree-richer in incident than can be imagined-full of surprises which the reader never forestalls, and yet free from all entanglement and confusion. The style, too, appears to me to be such as would not dishonor Tacitus himself."