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Centimanes

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English Etymology From en la centimanus, a calque of en grc Ἑκατόγχειρες the Hundred-Handed from la centi- 100 + la manus hand. Noun p en Roman mythology en Hecatoncheires. 1882, The Chautauquan, Volume 3, Chautauqua Press, page 486, The Titans with the Cyclops and Centimanes (hundred-handed), were giants and the first inhabitants of the earth. Strictly the hundred hands belong to the brothers of the Titans, the Centimanes. en 1906 George Grote A History of Greece, Volume 1 Dent https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HapDAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Centimanes%22&dq=%22Centimanes%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkma-9lLzkAhWI7XMBHfcIC3sQ6AEIODAC 54 Of the three Centimanes enumerated by Hesiod, Brisareus only is mentioned in Homer, and, to all appearance, not as the son of Uranos, but as the son of Poseidṑn; not as aiding Zeus in his combat with the Titans, but as rescuing him at a critical moment from a conspiracy formed against him by Hḕrḕ, Poseidṑn and Athḕnḕ. 1998, Robert K. G. Temple Robert Temple, The Sirius Mystery The Sirius Mystery: New Scientific Evidence of Alien Contact 5,000 Years Ago, 2nd Edition, Random House (Arrow), page 325, ‘"From their shoulders sprang a hundred invincible arms and above these powerful limbs rose fifty heads attached to their backs." For this reason they were called the Hecatoncheires or Centimanes,’ as we are reliably told. Anagrams en aceeimnnst incasement en Hundred