Typhœus

, or Typhon , a famous giant, son of Tartar us and Terra, who had 100 heads like those of a serpent or a dragon. Flames of devouring fire were darted from his mouth and from his eyes, and he uttered horrid yells, like the di onant shrieks of different animals. He was no sooner born, than, to avenge the death of his brothers the giants, he made war against heaven, and so frightened the gods that they fled away and a umed different shapes. Jupiter became a ram, Mercury an ibis, ♦ Apollo a crow, Juno a cow, Bacchus a goat, Diana a cat, Venus a fish, . The father of the gods at last resumed courage, and put Typhœus to flight with his thunderbolts, and crushed him under mount Ætna, in the island of Sicily, or, according to some, under the island Inarime. Typhœus became father of Geryon, Cerberus, and Orthos by his union with Echidna. Hyginus , fables 152 & 196.— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 5 , li. 325 .— Aeschylus , Seven Against Thebes .— Hesiod , Theogony , li. 820 .— Homer , Hymns .— Hero dot us , bk. 2 , ch. 156 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 9 , li. 716 . ♦ ‘Appollo’ replaced with ‘Apollo’