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Cyclopes

Noun

The word is derived from cyclops

Meaning

only the silky anteater

Source: WordNet

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"And how often goddess, didst thou make trial of thy silver bow?", asks Callimachus for whom it is a Cydonian bow that the Cyclopes make for her (Callimachus, Hymn 3 to Artemis). Source: Internet

His great roar of frustration brings the rest of the Cyclopes down to the shore as Aeneas draws away in fear. Source: Internet

In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the help of the chthonic Cyclopes —among them his assistants in the forge, Brontes, Steropes and Pyracmon. citation Virg. Source: Internet

Female Cyclopes are not stated in any classical sources. Source: Internet

It is explained in Nonnus Dionysiaca that the Cyclopes killed many men in the war, which is also the only story that tells how they fight. Source: Internet

Mondi, pp. 17-18: "Why is there such a discrepancy between the nature of the Homeric Cyclopes and the nature of those found in Hesiod's Theogony? Source: Internet

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