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Briarius
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Sep 15, 2026
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I-François Rabelais
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71:06speaker_8NARRATOR
Argus had a hundred eyes for his sight.
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71:09speaker_8NARRATOR
A butler should have, like Briarius, a hundred hands wherewith to fill us wine indefatigably.
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71:17speaker_8NARRATOR
Hey now, lads, let us moisten ourselves.
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71:21speaker_8NARRATOR
It will be time to dry hereafter.
Three Good Giants-François Rabelais
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18:24Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
Long after Hertali came Goliath the giant, whom young David slew with his sling and stone.
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18:31Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
Briarius, the Greek giant of a hundred hands.
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18:36Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
King Porus, the Indian giant who fought with Alexander and was defeated by him.
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18:42Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
And the famous giant Broyar, slain by Ogier the Dane, peer of France.
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 17-Various
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77:32Bill HavankyNARRATOR
The giants personified brute strength alone, but the titans united to their great physical power intellectual qualifications variously developed.
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77:42Bill HavankyNARRATOR
There were three giants, Briarius, Cadus, and Gyges, who each possessed a hundred hands and fifty heads, and were known collectively by the name of the Hecatonchires, which signified hundred-handed.
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77:58Bill HavankyNARRATOR
These mighty giants could shake the universe and produce earthquakes.
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78:02Bill HavankyNARRATOR
It is therefore evident that they represented those active subterranean forces to which allusion has been made in the opening chapter.
Three Good Giants-François Rabelais
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17:53Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
Long after Hertali came Goliath, the giant whom young David slew with his sling and stone.
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18:01Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
Briarius, the Greek giant of a hundred hands.
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18:05Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
King Porus, the Indian giant who fought with Alexander, and was defeated by him.
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18:12Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
And the famous giant Broyar, slain by Ogier the Dane, peer of France.
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 17-Various
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67:00Bill HavankyNARRATOR
Nix again, on her side, was also doubly united, having been married at some indefinite period to Erebus.
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67:08Bill HavankyNARRATOR
addition to those children of heaven and earth already enumerated uranus and gaia produced two distinctly different races of beings called giants and titans the giants personified brute strength alone but the titans united to their great physical power intellectual qualifications variously developed There were three giants, Briarius, Cadus, and Gyges, who each possessed a hundred hands and fifty heads, and were known collectively by the name of the Hecatonchires, which signified hundred-handed.
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67:44Bill HavankyNARRATOR
These mighty giants could shake the universe and produce earthquakes.
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67:48Bill HavankyNARRATOR
It is therefore evident that they represented those active subterranean forces to which allusion has been made in the opening chapter.
Three Good Giants-François Rabelais
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17:39Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
Long after Hertali came Goliath, the giant whom young David slew with his sling and stone.
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17:46Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
Briarius, the Greek giant of a hundred hands.
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17:50Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
King Porus, the Indian giant who fought with Alexander, and was defeated by him.
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17:57Bill MoseleyNARRATOR
And the famous giant Broyar, slain by Ogier the Dane, peer of France.