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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 483 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARGUS , in See also:

ancient See also:Greek See also:mythology, the son of Inachus, Agenor or Arestor, or, according to others, an See also:earth-See also:born See also:hero (autochthon). He was called Panoptes (all-seeing), from having eyes all over his See also:body. After performing several feats of valour, he was appointed by See also:Hera to See also:watch the cow into which Io had been transformed. While doing this he was slain by See also:Hermes, who stoned him to See also:death, or put him to See also:sleep by playing on the See also:flute and then cut off his See also:head. His eyes were transferred by Hera to the tail of the See also:peacock. Argus with his countless eyes originally denoted the starry heavens (See also:Apollodorus ii. 1; See also:Aeschylus, P. V. 569; See also:Ovid, Metam. i. 264). Another ARGUS, the old See also:dog of See also:Odysseus, who recognized his See also:master on his return to See also:Ithaca, figures in one of the best-known incidents in See also:Homer's Odyssey (xvii. 291-326).

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