a son of the river Granicus.

[446]AEsacon umbrosa furtim peperisse sub Ida
Fertur Alexirhoe Granico nata bicorni.

The antient Arcadians were said to have been the offspring of [447]Typhon,
and by some the children of Atlas; by which was meant, that they were
people of the Typhonian, and Atlantian religion. What they called his tombs
were certainly mounds of earth, raised very high, like those which have
been mentioned before: only with this difference, that some of these had
lofty towers adorned with pinnacles, and battlements. They had also carved
upon them various symbols; and particularly serpentine hieroglyphics, in
memorial of the God to whom they were sacred. In their upper story was a
perpetual fire, which was plainly seen in the night. I have mentioned, that
the poets formed their notions about Otus and Ephialtes from towers: and
the idea of Orion's stupendous bulk taken from the Pelorian edifice in
Sicily. The gigantic stature of Typhon was borrowed from a like object: and
his character was formed from the hieroglyphical representations in the
temples styled Typhonian. This may be inferred from the allegorical
description of Typhoeus, given by Hesiod. Typhon and Typhoeus, were the
same personage: and the poet represents him of a mixed form, being partly a
man, and partly a monstrous dragon, whose head consisted of an assemblage
of smaller serpents.

[448][Greek: Ek de hoi omon]
[Greek: En hekaton kephalai ophios, deinoio Drakontos.]

As there was a perpetual fire kept up in the upper story, he describes it
as shining through the apertures in the building.

[449][Greek: Ek de hoi osson]
[Greek: Thespesieis kephaleisin hup' ophrusi pur amarusse;]
[Greek: Paseon d' ek kephaleon pur kaieto derkomenoio.]

But the noblest description of Typhon is given in some very fine poetry by
Nonnus. He has taken his ideas from some antient tower situated near the
sea upon the summit of an high mountain. It was probably the Typhonian
temple of Zeus upon mount Casius, near the famed Serbonian lake. He
mentions sad noises heard within, and describes the roaring of the surge
below: and says that all the monsters of the sea stabled in the cavities at
the foot of the mountain, which was washed by the ocean.

[450][Greek: En ichthuoenti de pontoi]
[Greek: Histamenou Tuphonos eso bruoentos enaulou]
[Greek: Benthei tarsa pepekto, kai eeri mignuto gaster]
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