Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Harpe

(2 syl.). The cutlass with which Mercury killed Argus; and with which Perseus subsequently cut off the head of Medusa.

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