For this is England’s greatest son,
He who gained a hundred fights
And never lost an English gun.—Tennyson.
Admiral Horatio, Lord Nelson.
Hundred-Handed (The). Briar´eos (4 syl.) or Ægæon, with his brothers Gygês and Kottos, were all hundred-handed giants.
Homer makes Briareos 4 syl.; but Shakespeare writes it in the Latin form, “Briareus,” and makes it 3 syl.
Then, called by thee, the monster Titan came,
Whom gods Briareös, men Ægēon name.
Pope, Iliad, 1 (1715).
He is a gouty Briareus. Many hands,