Crete
Hound of Crete. A blood-hound.
“Coupe le gorge, that's the word. I thee defy again, O hound
of Crete.”
Shakespeare: Henry V.,
ii. 1.
The Infamy of Crete.
The Minotaur.
There lay stretched
The infamy of Crete, detested brood
Of the feigned heifer.
Dante: Hell,
xii. (Cary's translation).
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