A highly infectious disease of pigs caused by a pestivirus and characterized in its classical form by high fever, lassitude, purple discoloration of abdominal skin, conjunctivitis and nervous signs including circling, incoordination, tremor and convulsions.
His birth name we are told was Tuthmosis, meaning Born of the god Thoth, though this is a Greek version. His actual Egyptian name was Djehutymes I, but he is also sometimes referred to as Thutmose I, or Thutmosis I. His thrown name was A-Kheper-ka-re (Aakheperkara).
Polyphemus was the son of Poseidon and the sea nymph Thoosa. He was a Cyclops and was thought to have lived on the island of Sicily. The celebrated traveller, Odysseus, renowned for his wits and silver-tongue, was on his way home from Troy when he beach at Sicily, home of the lawless race of one-eyed giants.