Brewer's: Hundred-eyed

(The). Argus, in Greek and Latin fable. Juno appointed him guardian of Io [the cow], but Jupiter caused him to be put to death, whereupon Juno transplanted his eyes into the tail of her peacock.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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