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" Minotaur, which lies stretched at his feet, with the head of a bull and the body of a man. "
Outline History of the Fine Arts: Embracing a View of the Rise, Progress ... - Page 207
by Benson John Lossing - 1840 - 330 pages
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 17

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...beings. One of larger size found in a temple, and the most celebrated, represents Theseus vanquishing the minotaur, which lies stretched at his feet, with the...bull and the body of a man. A female, supposed to lie Ariadne, and three children, form part of the grou-p. This, along with a picture composed of several...
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The Useful Arts, Considered in Connexion with the Applications of Science ...

Jacob Bigelow - 1840 - 412 pages
...sacrifices, all enter the catalogue. One of large size, found in a temple, represents Theseus vanquishing the Minotaur, which lies stretched at "his feet, with...and three children, form part of the group. This, along with a picture composed of several figures as large as life, of which Flora is the most conspicuous,...
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The Useful Arts, Considered in Connexion with the Applications of ..., Volume 1

Jacob Bigelow - 1853 - 402 pages
...sacrifices, all enter the catalogue. One of large size, found in a temple, represents Theseus vanquishing the Minotaur, which lies stretched at his feet, with the...and three children, form part of the group. This, along with a picture composed of several figures as large as life, of which Flora is the most conspicuous,...
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The Church of England quarterly review

1857 - 526 pages
...Canaanites, and, after them, apostate Jews, sacrificed their children. This fierce idol is represented with the head of a bull, and the body of a man ; a gigantic brazen statue, which contained within it a flaming furnace, and stretched forth its arms to...
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Selections from Ovid and Virgil: a shorter handbook of Latin poetry ; with ...

James Hobbs Hanson - 1865 - 672 pages
...Minos. Minos, ois, m.; a king and lawgiver of Crete. Mino-taurus (Minos), i, m.; the Minotaur (a monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man). miinio, gre, ui, utum ; to diminish. mirabOia (miror), e ; wonderful. miraculum (miror), i, ;/./ •wonder,...
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The ... book of Virgil's Æneid, with a vocabulary ed. by J.T. White ..., Book 6

Publius Vergilius Maro - 1873 - 160 pages
...Of Crete, Creian i Mil'«,' ; akin to Sausmanas, "man"]. Minotaur UH, 1, m. The Minotaur; a mouster with the head of a bull and the body of a man, the offspring of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, and of a bull. It was shnt up in the labyrinth made by...
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Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, Volumes 4-5

Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) - 1882 - 370 pages
...late as the middle of the first century of our era, stood, according to Polyhistor, a colossal statue with the head of a bull and the body of a man. " Apion, cognominatus Plistonices, paulo ante scriptum reliquit esse etiam nunc in labyrintho ^gypti...
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Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, Volumes 5-6

Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) - 1883 - 506 pages
...late as the middle of the first century of our era, stood, according to Polyhistor, a colossal statue with the head of a bull and the body of a man. " Apion, cognominatus Plistonices, paulo ante scriptum reliquit esse etiam nunc in labyrintho ^Egypti...
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Le lac Mœris et son emplacement

Frederic Cope Whitehouse - 1885 - 72 pages
...late as the middle of the first century of our era, stood, according to Polyhistor, a colossal statue with the head of a bull and the body of a man. "Apion, cognominatus Plistonices, paulo ante scriptum reliquit esse etiam mine in labyrinthe ^gypti...
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Six books of the Aeneid of Vergil

Virgil, William Rainey Harper, Frank Justus Miller - 1892 - 512 pages
...lawgiver in Crete, and after death a judge in the Lower World (vi. 432). MInotaurus, i, m., a monster, with the head of a bull and the body of a man, shut up in the labyrinth at Crete, and fod upon human flesh (vi. 26). minus, adv., less : w. nee or...
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