Brontes
(2 syl.). A blacksmith personified, one of the Cyclops. The
name signifies Thunder.
Not with such weight, to frame the forky brand,
The ponderous hammer falls from Brontes' hand.
Hoole: Jerusalem Delivered, book xx.
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