Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookBrewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Allusions; Fiction -- Dictionaries; Literature -- Dictionaries
MALAMBRU´NO, the giant who shut up Antonoma´sia and her husband in the
tomb of the deceased queen of Candaya.—Cervantes, _Don Quixote_, II.
iii. 45.
MARGUTTE (3 _syl._), a giant 10 feet high, who died of laughter when he
saw a monkey pulling on his boots.—Pulci, _Morgante Maggiore_.
MAUGYS, the giant warder with whom Sir Lybius does battle.—_Libeaux_.
MAUL, the giant of sophistry, killed by Greatheart, who pierced him
under the fifth rib.—Bunyan, _Pilgrim’s Progress_, ii.
MONT-ROGNON, one of Charlemagne’s paladins.
MORGANTE (3 _syl._), a ferocious giant, who died by the bite of a
crab.—Pulci, _Morgante Maggiore_.
MUGILLO, a giant famous for his mace with six balls.
OFFERUS, the pagan name of St. Christopher, whose body was 12 ells in
height.—_Christian Legend_.
OGIAS, an antediluvain giant, mentioned in the apocrypha condemned by
Pope Gelasius I. (492-496).
ORGOGLIO, a giant thrice the height of an ordinary man. He takes captive
the Red Cross Knight, but is slain by King Arthur.—Spenser, _Faëry
Queen_, i.
ORI´ON, a giant hunter, noted for his beauty. He was slain by Diana, and
made a constellation.—_Greek Fable_.
OTOS, a giant, brother of Ephialtês. They both grew nine inches every
month. According to Pliny, he was 46 cubits (66 feet) in height.—_Greek
Fable_.
PALLAS, one of the giants called Titans. Minerva flayed him, and used
his skin for armor; hence she was called Pallas Minerva.—_Greek Fable_.
PANTAG´RUEL, son of Gargantua, and last of the race of giants.
POLYBO´TES (4 _syl._), one of the giants who fought against the gods.
The sea-god pursued him to the island of Cos, and, tearing away a part
of the island, threw it on him and buried him beneath the mass.—_Greek
Fable_.
POLYPHE´MOS, king of the Cyclops. His skeleton was found at Trapa´ni, in
Sicily, in the fourteenth century, by which it is calculated that his
height was 300 feet.—_Greek Fable_.
PORPHYR´ION, one of the giants who made war with the gods. He hurled the
island of Delos against Zeus; but Zeus, with the aid of Herculês,
overcame him.—_Greek Fable_.
PYRAC´MON, one of the Cyclops.—_Greek Fable_.
RITHO, the giant who commanded King Arthur to send his beard to complete
the lining of a robe.—_Arthurian Romance_.
SLAY-GOOD, a giant slain by Greatheart. Bunyan, _Pilgrim’s Progress_,
ii.
STER´OPES (3 _syl._), one of the Cyclops.—_Greek Fable_.
TARTARO, the Cyclops of Basque legendary lore.
TEUTOBOCH´US, a king, whose remains were discovered in 1613, near the
river Rhone. His tomb was 30 feet long.—Mazurier, _Histoire Véritable du
Géant Teutobochus_ (1618).
THAON, one of the giants who made war with the gods. He was killed by
the Parcæ.—Hesiod, _Theogony_.
TITANS, a race of giants.—_Greek Fable_.
TIT´YOS, a giant whose body covered nine acres of land. He tried to
defile Latōna, but Apollo cast him into Tartarus, where a vulture fed on
his liver, which grew again as fast as it was devoured.—_Greek Fable_.
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