"He derived his surname, Panoptes, the all-seeing, fiom his possessing a hundred eyes, some of which were always awake. (...) Hera appointed him guardian of the cow into which Io had been metamorphosed. Zeus commissioned Hermes to carry off the cow, and Hermes accomplished the task, according to some accounts, by stoning Argus to death, or 'according to others, by sending him to sleep by the sweetness of his play on the flute and then cutting oft' his head. Hera transplanted his eyes to the tail of the peacock, her favourite bird."
Schmitz, Leonhard, "ARGUS" in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. I, editado por William Smith, Londres, James Walton e John Murray, 1869, p. 282.
"Mercury at centre, bending down to kill Argus, asleep under a tree to right, with Io as a cow standing to left and Juno seated on clouds with a peacock above to left"
1606
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