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Argus

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Argus
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The current source names Argus only through Mercury’s epithet and does not classify the figure further.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

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·Direct

Argus is the figure slain by Mercury.

See evidence text
“Mercury, guide and guardian, slayer of Argus”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Direct
“slayer of Argus”

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 5

Thus he spoke, and Mercury, guide and guardian, slayer of Argus, did as he was told. Forthwith he bound on his glittering golden sandals with which he could fly like the wind over land and sea. He took the wand with which he seals men’s eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases, and flew holding it in his hand over Pieria; then he swooped down through the firmament till he reached the level of the sea, whose waves he skimmed like a cormorant that flies fishing every hole and corner of the ocean, and drenching its thick plumage in the spray. He flew and flew over many a weary wave, but when at last he got to the island which was his journey’s end, he left the sea and went on by land till he came to the cave where the nymph Calypso lived.