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Τυφῶν

Τυφῶν, Typhon

Τῡφῶν, ῶνος, ὁ, Pi. O. 4.8, Fr. 93, etc.; Ep. Τῠφάων, ονος, h.Ap. 306, 352, Hes. Th. 306; gen. Τυφάωνος Opp. H. 5.217:—
  • Typhon, represented by Hes. as son of Typhoëus and father of the Winds, cf. Th. 307 with 869; son of Hera without a father, h.Ap. ll. cc.: in later Poets Typhôn and Typhôs were confounded, cf. Pi. ll.cc. with P. 1.16, 8.16, A. Pr. 372 with 356, Th. 493, Sch. Pl. Phdr. 230a; taken in jest as the personification of τῦφος, Pl. l.c., Plu. Col. 2.1119b; in Egypt identified with Set, Hdt. 2.144, al., POxy. 1449.14 (iii A. D.).
    • II as Appellat., = τυφώς II, typhoon, Anaxag. ap. Placit. 3.3.4, Arist. Mete. 371a9, al., Mu. 395a24, Thphr. Vent. 34.
      • 2 a kind of comet, Lyd. Ost. 15b, An.Ox. 3.406.
      • 3 Astron., the Great Bear or part of it, Teucer in Boll Sphaera 47, cf. Plu. Isid. 2.359d.
      • 4 in magical formulae, donkey, PMag.Par. 1.3260, prob. in PMag.Lond. 125.1; cf. Τυφώνιος 1.3. [ῡ in the disyll. form Τυφῶν, ῠ in the trisyll. Τυφάων, but long in gen. Τῡφάωνος; ᾱ in the forms Τυφᾱονα, -ονος, etc.]

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