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Aegaeon

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Aegaeon
gigantic monster with 100 arms, 50 heads. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Wheeler, 5]
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1165: Eumelus says that Aegaeon was the son of Earth and Sea and, having his dwelling in the sea, was an ally of the Titans.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundred-handed monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat all-glorious beside the son of Saturn, the other gods were afraid, and did not bind him.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
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