Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . though objectionable, is concise in its style, and has settled manycontroversies. ARGUMENTUM AD HOMINEM. See Argument. ARGUS, the son of Zeus and Niobe, succeeded Phoroneus inthe government of the Peloponnesus, which took from him itsname of Argos, as did also the territory of Argolis.—A., surnamedPanoptes (all-seeing), had one hundred eyes, some of which werealways awake. He was enormously strong, and on account of thewonderful exploits he performed, Juno appointed him to watcliover lo, transformed intoacow. Mercur
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . though objectionable, is concise in its style, and has settled manycontroversies. ARGUMENTUM AD HOMINEM. See Argument. ARGUS, the son of Zeus and Niobe, succeeded Phoroneus inthe government of the Peloponnesus, which took from him itsname of Argos, as did also the territory of Argolis.—A., surnamedPanoptes (all-seeing), had one hundred eyes, some of which werealways awake. He was enormously strong, and on account of thewonderful exploits he performed, Juno appointed him to watcliover lo, transformed intoacow. Mercury, being commissioned byZeus to carry off the cow, slew A. by stoning him; or, as Ovidsays, first charmed him to sleep by playing on the flute, and thenbeheaded him. Juno used the eyes of A. to decorate the peacockstail.—A. the builder of the ship Argo (see Argonauts). 290 AEGUS— ARGUS, a genus of gallinaceous birds, remarkable for mag-nificence of plumage. The only known species is A. giganteiis,formerly called Phasianm A-, and still very generally the A. pheas-ant. The sides of tlie liead and of tlie neck are destitute of feath-ers; the tail consists of twelve featliers, of wliich the two middleones in tlie male are very much elongated; tlie secondary featliersof the wings are mucli longer than the primary. The name allusion to the many beautiful eye-like markings wliich adorn the yilumage of the male, andparticularly the secondaries ofthe wings. The long seconda-ries are said to impede the flightof the bird; but its wings aremuch employed to aid it inrunning. The female is of com-paratively tame plumage, notonly wanting the eye-like mark-ings, but even the length of thesecondaries and of the middletail-feathers. The size of thebird, when divested of itsplumage, is not much greaterthan that of a common barn-door fowl, but the tail-feathersof the male a
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