Mimas
2. A giant who is said to have been killed by Ares. or by Zeus with a flash of lightning (Apollon. Rhod. iii 1227; Eur. Ion 215). The island of Prochyte, near Sicily, was believed to rest upon his body. (Sil. Ital. 12.147.)
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