Tiʹtan

The sun, so called by Ovid and Virgil.

“And fleckëd Darkness like a drunkard reels

From forth Day’s path and Titan’s flery wheels.”

The Titans. The children of Heaven and Earth, who, instigated by their mother, deposed their father, and liberated from Tarʹtaros their brothers the Hundred-handed giants, and the Cyclopes. (Classic mythology.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.