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| | Bulfinch's Mythology, The Age of Fable - Chapter 16: Monsters & Giants, The Sphinx, Pegasus and the Chimaera, The ... |
 | | MONSTERS, in the language of mythology, were beings of unnatural proportions or parts, usually regarded with terror, as possessing immense strength and ferocity, which they employed for the injury and annoyance of men. |
 | | Tityus, we are told, when stretched on the plain, covered nine acres, and Enceladus required the whole of Mount AEtna to be laid upon him to keep him down. |
 | | Laius, king of Thebes, was warned by an oracle that there was danger to his throne and life if his new-born son should be suffered to grow up. |
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