 | William Smith - Greece - 1855 - 724 pages
...This consisted of seven youths and seven maidens, whom the Athenians were compelled to send every nine years to Crete, there to be devoured by the Minotaur,...horrible tribute. Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, became enamored of the hero, and having supplied him with a clew to trace the windings of the labyrinth, Theseus... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1855 - 708 pages
...This consisted of seven youths and seven maidens, whom the Athenians were compelled to send every nine years to Crete, there to be devoured by the Minotaur,...horrible tribute. Ariadne., the daughter of Minos, became enamored of the hero, and having supplied him with a clew to trace the windings of the labyrinth, Theseus... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1860 - 718 pages
...This consisted of seven youths and seven maidens, whom the Athenians were compelled to send every nine years to Crete, there to be devoured by the Minotaur,...horrible tribute. Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, became enamored of the hero, and having supplied him with a clew to trace the windings of the labyrinth, Theseus... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1861 - 760 pages
...and seven maidens, whom the Athenians were compelled to send every nine years to Crete, there to bo devoured by the Minotaur, a monster with a human body and a bnlfs head, which Minos kept concealed in an inextricable labyrinth. Tho third ship was already on... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1863 - 780 pages
...This consisted of seven youths and seven maidens, whom the Athenians were compelled to send every nine years to Crete, there to be devoured by the Minotaur,...to the horrible tribute. Ariadne, the daughter of Mmos, became enamoured of the hero, and having supplied him with a clue to trace the windings of the... | |
 | William Bodham Donne - Latin poetry - 1864 - 266 pages
...the Athenians, and having conquered, imposed on them a yearly tribute of youths and maidens, who were devoured by the Minotaur — a monster with a human body and a bull's head, and who was kept in the labyrinth of Cuossus. Theseus undertook to deliver bis country from this odious... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - History - 1883 - 492 pages
...This consisted of seven youths and seven maidens whom the Athenians were compelled to send every nine years to Crete, there to be devoured by the Minotaur,...monster with a human body and a bull's head, which Miuos kept concealed in an inextricable labyrinth. The third ship was already on the point of sailing... | |
 | Henry Preble, Charles Pomeroy Parker - Latin language - 1884 - 116 pages
...were compelled to send every nine years to Crete, there to be devoured by the Minotaur, a monster with a bull's head, which Minos kept concealed in an inextricable...Theseus offered to go with them, hoping to put an end forever to the horrible tribute. 2. Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, became enamoured of the hero, and... | |
 | Henry Preble, Charles Pomeroy Parker - Latin language - 1884 - 116 pages
...This consisted of seven youths and seven maidens, whom the Athenians were compelled to send every nine years to Crete, there to be devoured by the Minotaur, a monster with a builds head, which Minos kept concealed in an inextricable labyrinth. The third ship was already on... | |
 | William Smith - Greece - 1890 - 760 pages
...This consisted of seven youths and seven maidens, whom the Athenians were compelled to send every nine years to Crete, there to be devoured by the Minotaur,...body and a bull's head, which Minos kept concealed m an inextricable labyrinth. The third ship was already on the point of sailing with its cargo of innocent... | |
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Among his many memorable achievements the most famous was his deliverance of Athens from the frightful tribute imposed upon it by Minos for the murder of his son. This consisted of seven youths and seven maidens, whom the Athenians were compelled to send... 
