The ship Argo; so called because its crew were natives of Mynia.
“When his black whirlwinds oʹer the ocean rolled
And rent the Mynian sails.”
Camoens: Lusiad, bk. vi.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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