Briareus

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proper noun

A giant, one of the Centimanes, also called Aegoeon.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. Greekhuman sciencesA giant, one of the Centimanes, also called Aegoeon.

    A glovemaker makes 50 pairs of gloves: but he is not a Briareus: therefore he does not want 50 pairs of gloves: therefore as in the former case, all the gloves he makes above his own requirements are so much labour thrown away without any

    1872, Henry Dunning Macleod, The Principles of Economical Philosophy, volume 1, Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, page 336
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