Geryonen: Geryon, a giant with three bodies whom Hercules slew; cf. Verg. Aen. 8.201 sqq. Heywood, Love's Mistress, 'Wert thou more strong than Spanish Geryon| That had three heads upon one man.' Tityon; Tityos, who insulted Latona, was slain by her children, Apollo and Diana, and in the lower regions covered nine acres of ground; cf. 3. 4.77; 3.11.21; 4.6.2; Odyss. 11.576; Verg. Aen. 6. 595 sqq.; Tibull. 1. 3. 75, porrectusque novem Tityos per iugera terrae. They were big and burly, but death was stronger. Lucret. 3.1030 sqq. points a similar moral with Xerxes, the Scipios, and Homer. tristi: Verg. G. 4.479, inamabilis unda.
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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