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Tўphōeus

Tўphōeus · m

a giant

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What it meant

Tўphōeus — Lewis & Short

Tўphōeus (trisyl.), ĕos, m., = *tufweu/s,

I a giant, struck with lightning by Jupiter and buried under Mount Ætna, Verg. A. 9, 716; Ov. M. 5, 321 sq.; id. F. 4, 491; Hor. C. 3, 4, 53; Sil. 14, 196 al.—As a gigantic monster, called centimanus, Ov. M. 3, 303. —Hence,

A Tўphōĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Typhōeus, Typhœan tela, Verg. A. 1, 665: cervix, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 183.—

B Tўphōïs, ĭdis, adj f., of Typhōeus, Typhœan: Aetna, Ov H. 15, 11.

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