Hundred-handed

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Hundred-handed (not comparable)

  1. Of the Hekatonkheires, three giants of Greek mythology who helped Zeus overthrow the Titans.
    • 1855, James Talboys Wheeler, The Life and Travels of Herodotus - Volume 2, page 99:
      Uranos imprisoned the Titans in the earth, and threw the Cyclops and Hundred-handed Giants into Tartarus, but was at length overthrown and disabled by his son Cronos the Titan, who thereupon released his brother Titans and established the second dynasty of gods called the Cronids.
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