Briareus

British  

/ braɪˈɛərɪəs /

noun

1. Greek myth a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans

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Other Word Forms

• Briarean adjective

Example Sentences

Some of the apostles were found, upon careful search, to be centipedes; and others to have had as many hands as Briareus.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

There were three Giants, Briareus, Cottus, and Gyges, who each possessed a hundred hands and fifty heads, and were known collectively by the name of the Hecatoncheires, which signified hundred-handed.

From Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by Berens, E.M.

I cried in deep feeling; I wished I were armed like Briareus of yore, While sharper and sharper the flames kept revealing The sight of my bibliographical store.

From In the Track of the Bookworm by Browne, Irving

No man, had he been endowed with as many arms as Briareus, would have sufficed for it.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

Such was the scene, when midst the loud alarms Sublime the eternal Thunderer rose in arms; When Briareus, by mad ambition driven, Heaved Pelion huge, and hurled it high at heaven.

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James