Tityus

, a celebrated giant, son of Terra; or, according to others, of Jupiter, by Elara the daughter of Orc home nos. He was of such a prodigious size, that his mother died in travail after Jupiter had drawn her from the bowels of the earth, where she had been concealed during her pregnancy to avoid the anger of Juno. Tityus attempted to offer violence to Latona, but the godde delivered herself from his importunities, by calling to her a istance her children, who killed the giant with their arrows. He was placed in hell, where a serpent continually devoured his liver; or, according to others, where vultures perpetually fed upon his entrails, which grew again as soon as devoured. It is said that Tityus covered nine acres when stretched on the ground. He had a small chapel with an altar in the island of Eubœa. Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 4 .— Pindar , Pythian , ch. 4 .— Homer , Ody ey , bk. 7 , li. 325 ; bk. 11 , li. 575 .— A poll on i us of Rhodes , bk. 1 , li. 182 , . — Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 525 .— Horace , bk. 3 , ode 4, li. 77 .— Hyginus , fable 55.— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 4 , li. 457 .— Tibullus , bk. 1 , poem 3, li. 75 .