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Iliad , I 403:⁠—

“Him of the hundred hands, whom the gods call Briareus, and all men Aegaeon.”

“Him of the hundred hands, whom the gods call Briareus, and all men Aegaeon.”

note 472 .

He was struck by the thunderbolt of Jove, or by a shaft of Apollo, at the battle of Flegra. “Ugly medley of sacred and profane, of revealed truth and fiction!” exclaims Venturi. ↩