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"The second sample is taken from the 3rd track titled 'Typhoeus' and this song combines some of the most challenging riffs and phrases that I've ever written.
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The one seemed to be a monstrous son of baleful Typhoeus or of Earth herself, such as she brought forth aforetime, in her wrath against Zeus; but the other, the son of Tyndareus, was like a star of heaven, whose beams are fairest as it shines through the nightly sky at eventide.
The Argonautica 2008
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Typhoeus, and as Zeus is still reigning the poet can only go on to give a list of gods born to Zeus by various goddesses.
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Typhoeus was overwhelmed by Zeus amongst the Arimi in Cilicia.
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But when Zeus had conquered him and lashed him with strokes, Typhoeus was hurled down, a maimed wreck, so that the huge earth groaned.
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Typhoeus > (Another name for Typhon, a fearsome giant who contended with the gods) gin > engine [of torture], rack (a long table with a roller at each end to which the ankles and wrists were attached by ropes) 8 Theseus, condemned to endless sloth by law;
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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The one seemed to be a monstrous son of baleful Typhoeus or of
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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Typhoeus, and as Zeus is still reigning the poet can only go on to give
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Prochyta quivers at the sound, and the couchant rocks of Inarime, piled above Typhoeus by Jove's commands.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Before thee the Stygian pools [296-329] shook for fear, before thee the warder of hell, couched on half-gnawn bones in his blood-stained cavern; to thee not any form was terrible, not Typhoeus 'self towering in arms; thou wast not bereft of counsel when the snake of Lerna encompassed thee with thronging heads.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
hernesheir commented on the word Typhoeus
A mythological dragon with one hundred heads.
February 16, 2011