Briareus
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Thetis brought the hundred-handed Briareus to the help of the outnumbered and over-mastered Zeus.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
It is very much the same as if a man maimed and blind should be afraid of becoming hundred-handed like Briareus or all eyes like Argus.
From Plutarch's Morals by Shilleto, Arthur Richard
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.
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.
One must have the hundred hands of Briareus, and the hundred eyes of Argus, with brains to suit, to know anything at all worth while, in our age.
From 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Hartshorne, Henry
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