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Tityos

also: Tityon

A giant punished in the underworld, his liver (or breast) torn forever by vultures for assaulting Leto. Lucretius reads him as a figure of the man devoured by love and gnawing anxiety in this life.

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On the Nature of Things poem · 1 mention

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