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Geryon

noun
1.
(Greek mythology) a mythical monster with three heads that was slain by Hercules.





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"Geryon" Quotes from Famous Books



... hundred steers you heap Each day, to glut the tearless eyes Of Him, who guards in moated keep Tityos, and Geryon's triple size: ...
— Horace • William Tuckwell
... est Hercules ad insulam Erythiam, ut boves Geryonis arcesseret. Res erat summae difficultatis, quod boves a quodam Eurytione et a cane bicipite custodiebantur. Ipse autem Geryon speciem horribilem praebebat; tria enim corpora inter se coniuncta habebat. Hercules tamen etsi intellegebat quantum periculum esset, negotium suscepit; ac postquam per multas terras iter fecit, ad eam partem Libyae pervenit quae ...
— Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles - A First Latin Reader • John Kirtland, ed.
... With hands clasped upwards, I stretched forward, looking at the fire, and imagining vividly human bodies I had once seen burnt. The good Escorts turned toward me, and Virgil said to me, "My son, here may be torment, but not death. Bethink thee! bethink thee! and if I even upon Geryon guided thee safe, what shall I do now that I am nearer God? Believe for certain that if within the belly of this flame thou shouldst stand full a thousand years, it could not make thee bald of one hair. And if thou perchance believest that I deceive thee, draw near to it, and make trial ...
— The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory [Purgatorio] • Dante Alighieri


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