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Argus

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Argus (är`gəs) or Argos (är`gŏs, –gəs), in Greek mythology.

1 Many-eyed monster, also called Panoptes. He guarded Io after she had been changed into a heifer. After Hermes slew the monster, Hera took his eyes and placed them in the tail of her bird, the peacock.

2 Builder of the Argo Argo (är`gō), in Greek mythology, ship in which Jason and the Argonauts sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
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. He built the ship on which Jason and the Argonauts (of which he was one) sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.


Argus
skillful builder of Jason’s Argo. [Gk. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 29]

Argus
hundred-eyed giant guarding Io. [Gk. Myth.: Leach, 72]

Argus
Odysseus’ dog; overjoyed at Odysseus’ return, he dies. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey]
See : Loyalty

Argus
hundred-eyed giant who guarded Io. [Gk. Myth. and Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]
See : Monsters

Argus
hundred-eyed giant ordered slain by Zeus, changed by Hera into a peacock with a tail full of “eyes.” [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 48]

(language)Argus - A successor to CLU, from LCS at MIT. Argus supports distributed programming through guardians (like monitors, but can be created dynamically) and atomic actions (indivisible activity). It also has cobegin and coend.

["Argus Reference Manual", B. Liskov et al., TR-400, MIT/LCS, 1987].

["Guardians and Actions: Linguistic Support for Robust, Distributed Programs", B. Liskov <liskov@lcs.mit.edu> et al, TOPLAS 5(3):381-404 (1983)].

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(as we said) must ever be well weighed; and generally it is good, to commit the beginnings of all great actions to Argus, with his hundred eyes, and the ends to Briareus, with his hundred hands; first to watch, and then to speed.
Like Argus of the ancient times, We leave this modern Greece, Tum-tum, tum-tum, tum, tum, tum-tum, To shear the Golden Fleece.
And he charged Hermes the guide, the Slayer of Argus, to put in her a shameless mind and a deceitful nature.
 
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