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An argosy is a merchant ship,〔(Word Histories - A Glossary of Unusual Word Origins ) by Wendell Herbruck〕〔(1911 Classic Encyclopedia ) Based on the 11th Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (published 1911)〕 or a fleet of such ships. As used by Shakespeare (e.g., in ''King Henry VI'', Part 3, Act 2, Scene VI; in the ''Merchant of Venice'', Act 1, Scene I and Scene III; and in ''The Taming of the Shrew'', Act 2, Scene I), the word means a flotilla of merchant ships operating together under the same ownership. It is derived from the 16th century city Ragusa〔(Seafaring Lore & Legend: ) A Miscellany of Maritime Myth, Superstition, Fable & Fact by Peter D. Jeans〕 (now Dubrovnik, in Croatia), a major shipping power of the day and entered the language through the Italian ''ragusea'', meaning a Ragusan ship. The word bears no relation to the ship ''Argo'' from Greek mythology (Jason and the Argonauts). Since "argosy" and "odyssey" sound alike and both refer to ships or voyage by ship ("odyssey" refers to Odysseus' journey, not to his ship, which goes unnamed in Homer's Odyssey), occasionally "argosy" is misused as a synonym for "odyssey", namely as an adventure. == See also == *Republic of Ragusa *Dubrovnik *Merchant ships 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Argosy (word)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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