Briăreus

, a famous giant, son of Cœlus and Terra, who had 100 hands and 50 heads, and was called by men Ægeon, and only by the gods Briareus. When Juno, Neptune, and Minerva conspired to dethrone Jupiter, Briareus ascended the heavens, and seated himself next to him, and so terrified the conspirators by his fierce and threatening looks that they desisted. He a isted the giants in their war against the gods, and was thrown under mount Ætna, according to some accounts. Hesiod , Theogony , li. 148 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 1 .— Homer , Iliad , bk. 1 , li. 403 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 287 ; bk. 10 , li. 565 .――A Cyclops, made judge between Apollo and Neptune, in their dispute about the isthmus and promontory of Corinth. He gave the former to Neptune, and the latter to Apollo. Pausanias , bk. 2 , ch. 1 .