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Hyperion

A son of Coelus and Terra, who married Thea. Aurora was their daughter. Keats has written a magnificent poem entitled Hyperion. Hyperion is often used by the poets to signify the sun; as, for instance, by Shakespeare in Titus Andronicus (act v.

Sc. 2): "Even from Hyperion's rising in the east, Until his very downfall in the sea."

Also in Troilus and Cressida, and other of Shakespeare's plays, the same license is used.

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