Picolous

[1][2] Picolous's role in the Gigantomachy is attested by two Byzantine scholars of the Middle Ages, Eustathius of Thessalonica and Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople, both of which quote earlier writers, Alexander of Paphos and Ptolemaeus Chennus respectively.

[3] Derivation from the Hesiodic phrase Φῖκ' ὀλοήν (meaning terribile Sphinx, in accusative case) has been proposed but rejected on the grounds of being "entirely fanciful.

Her father Helios killed him, protecting his daughter with his shield; from the blood which flowed on the earth a plant was born, and it was called μῶλυ because of the μῶλος or the battle in which the Giant aforementioned was killed.Patriarch Photius, who attributes the tale to Ptolemy Chennus, writes of an unnamed giant that attacked Circe and was killed by her father the sun god Helios, who was protecting his daughter; from his blood sprang a white herb, named moly after the hard battle (=môlos in Ancient Greek[5]) that took place between the giant and the god.

[6][7] In greater detail, the homeric scholiast Eustathius of Thessalonica, quoting Alexander of Paphos, writes that Picolous fought alongside the other Giants against Zeus during the war that was known as the Gigantomachy, but fled the battle; he went to Aeaea, the home island of the sorceress goddess Circe and attempted to chase her away from her land, but then her father Helios slew him.

[2][12] As for real-world identifications, the plant that grew from Picolous's blood has been suggested to be the snowdrop, a flower that counteracts amnesia, hallucinations, and delusions, which are hypothesized to be the real physics behind Circe's magic.