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Typhoeus

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) son of Gaea and Tartarus who created the whirlwinds; had a terrifying voice and 100 dragon heads that spurted fire.





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... sickens suddenly, and fears His life, or as a man ta'en unawares In some base act, and doth the finder hate; Just so was he, or in a worse estate: Fear, grief, and shame, and anger, in his face Were seen: no troubled seas more rage: the place Where huge Typhoeus groans, nor Etna, when Her giant sighs, were moved as he was then. I pass by many noble things I see (To write them were too hard a task for me), To her and those that did attend I go: Her armour ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch


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