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And in it was wrought Phoebus Apollo, a stripling not yet grown up, in the act of shooting at mighty Tityos who was boldly dragging his mother by her veil, Tityos whom glorious Elare bare, but Earth nursed him and gave him second birth.
The Argonautica 2008
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Europe, daughter of mighty Tityos, bare to Poseidon.
The Argonautica 2008
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Such example include Tityos bound while a vulture eats his liver, Tantalus thirsty and hungry but unable to eat the fruit just above his head or drink the water at his feet, and Sisyphus forced to push a rock up a hill only to have it roll back again for eternity.
Neatorama: Heaven and Hell, According to Various Religions William Harryman 2007
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Fragment #25 -- Herodian [1724] in Etymologicum Magnum, p. 60, 40: Tityos the son of Elara.
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Within appeared the gigantic form of Tityos, stretched at full length along the ground, and two vultures sat ever at his side, tearing his liver.
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Therewithal Tityos might be seen, fosterling of Earth the mother of all, whose body stretches over nine full acres, and a monstrous vulture with crooked beak eats away the imperishable liver and the entrails that breed in suffering, and plunges deep into the breast that gives it food and dwelling; nor is any rest given to the fibres that ever grow anew.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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On one side was the entrance, indicated by Charon's boat crossing: the Acheron, and the evocation of Teiresias by Ulysses, besides the punishment of Tityos and other wicked men; on the other side were Tantalos and Sisyphos.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various
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And in it was wrought Phoebus Apollo, a stripling not yet grown up, in the act of shooting at mighty Tityos who was boldly dragging his mother by her veil, Tityos whom glorious Elare bare, but Earth nursed him and gave him second birth.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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Europe, daughter of mighty Tityos, bare to Poseidon.
The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius
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And I saw Tityos, son of renowned Earth, lying on a levelled ground, and he covered nine roods as he lay, and vultures twain beset him one on either side, and gnawed at his liver, piercing even to the caul, but he drave them not away with his hands.
Book XI Homer 1909
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