Briareus

So in the fable that the rest of the gods having conspired to bind Jupiter, Pallas called Briareus with his hundred hands to his aid: expounded that monarchies need not fear any curbing of their absoluteness by mighty subjects, as long as by wisdom they keep the hearts of the people, who will be sure to come in on their side.

The Advancement of Learning 2003

And unless the blessed gods had feared him whom gods call Briareus, Zeus would have been bound by them.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

If Thetis had not been moved to compassion and called Briareus, you remember, our excellent Zeus would have been seized and manacled; and his gratitude to her induced him to delude Agamemnon with a lying dream, and bring about the deaths of a number of Greeks.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 of Samosata Lucian 1895

Then didst thou, O goddess, enter in and loose him from his bonds, having with speed summoned to high Olympus him of the hundred arms whom gods call Briareus, but all men call Aigaion; for he is mightier even than his father -- so he sate him by Kronion's side rejoicing in his triumph, and the blessed gods feared him withal and bound not Zeus.

The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

BRIAR´EOS (_4 syl. _), usually called Briareus [_Bri´. a.ruce_], the giant with a hundred hands.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

So in the fable that the rest of the gods having conspired to bind Jupiter, Pallas called Briareus with his hundred hands to his aid: expounded that monarchies need not fear any curbing of their absoluteness by mighty subjects, as long as by wisdom they keep the hearts of the people, who will be sure to come in on their side.

The Advancement of Learning Francis Bacon 1593

Briareus, with his hundred hands; first to watch, and then to speed.

The Essays 2007

Briareus, according to him, is clearly the deluge, for it signifies “the loss of serenity”: and in what language does it signify this loss? — in Hebrew.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Pallas, sent for Briareus, with his hundred hands, to come in to his aid.

The Essays 2007

But if Briareus could have clapped hands, he could scarcely have made more noise than Harry at the end of the piece.

The Virginians 2006