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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.

    LAMBGOAT.com News Headlines 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Typhoeus was overwhelmed by Zeus amongst the Arimi in Cilicia.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • But when Zeus had conquered him and lashed him with strokes, Typhoeus was hurled down, a maimed wreck, so that the huge earth groaned.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • 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

  • The one seemed to be a monstrous son of baleful Typhoeus or of

    The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

  • Typhoeus, and as Zeus is still reigning the poet can only go on to give

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • 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

  • 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

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  • A mythological dragon with one hundred heads.

    February 16, 2011