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Briareus
/ braɪˈɛərɪəs /
noun
- Greek myth a giant with a hundred arms and fifty heads who aided Zeus and the Olympians against the Titans
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Derived Forms
- Briˈarean, adjective
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Example Sentences
Briareus himself could not do it single-handed, as one of our vivacious Home Rulers might say.
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Briareus, armed to the teeth, would not affright our modern dowagers, or deter them from their prey.
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If a man were a Briareus, he should use all his hundred hands at once; at any rate, let everybody employ the two which they have.
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Briareus was another giant, remarkable for having fifty heads and a hundred hands.
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Have the hundred eyes of Argus beforehand, and the hundred hands of Briareus afterward.
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