Typhoeus
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Klimt painted it onto the walls in 1902 for the Secession’s 14th exhibition, depicting floating genies, a knight in shining armor, a giant Typhoeus monster of Greek myth and a choir of angels.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2015
As his subject, Palmer turned to Typhoeus typhoeus, commonly known as the minotaur beetle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Typhoeus or Enceladus made the mountain heave and snort; while Hephæstus not unnaturally forged thunder-bolts in the central caverns of a volcano that never ceased to smoke.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
Thee not Typhoeus, when in armed array 343 He towered erect, could daunt, nor grisly shapes dismay.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
In Typhoeus and Megascolex there are complex glands appended to the intestine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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