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- noun Alternative form of
sparrow hawk .
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Argus to sleep, a youth named Hierax awoke him; on which Mercury killed Argus with a stone, and turned Hierax into a spar-hawk.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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