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Τυ_φῶν , ῶνος, , Pi.O.4.8, Fr.93, etc.; Ep. Τυ^φάων , ονος, h.Ap. 306,352, Hes.Th.306; gen.
A.ΤυφάωνοςOpp.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.2.1119b; in Egypt identified with Set, Hdt.2.144, al., POxy.1449.14 (iii A. D.).
II. as Appellat., = τυφώς 11, 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.2.359d.
4. in magical formulae, donkey, PMag.Par.1.3260, prob. in PMag.Lond.125.1; cf. “Τυφώνιος1.3. [υ_ in the disyll. form Τυφῶν, υ^ in the trisyll. Τυφάων, but long in gen. Τυ_φάωνος; α_ in the forms Τυφα_ονα, -ονος, etc.]
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    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 356
    • Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, 372
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 493
    • Herodotus, Histories, 2.144
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 306
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 307
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 869
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 3 to Apollo, 306
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 3 to Apollo, 352
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 230a
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