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Briareus

Briareus · m

the hundred-armed giant

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Where it lives

de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

Brĭăreus — Lewis & Short

Brĭăreus (trisyl.), ei, m., = *briareu/s, Callim. Del. 143 (old form *bria/rews, Hom. Il. 1, 403; v. Crus. Wb. of Prop. Names),

I the hundred-armed giant, also called Ægœon: centumgeminus, Verg. A. 6, 287 Serv. and Heyne; cf. id. ib. 10, 565: ferox, Luc. 4, 596 Schol.: immensus, Stat. Th. 2, 596; cf. also Ov. M. 2, 10; Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 304: vastus, Sen. Herc. Oet. 167.—Hence, Brĭă-rēĭus, a um, adj., of or belonging to Briareus: turba, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 188.

In the wild

Briareus Ovid, Fasti 3.805
Briareus Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 6.25
Briareus Vergil, Aeneid 6.287
Briareus Claudian, de consulatu Stilichonis 1.304
Briareus Silius Italicus, Punica 13.588
Briareusque Lucan, Pharsalia 4.596

6 of 8 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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