Definition of Crius

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) one of the Titans.

Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Titan

Definition of Crius

1. Proper noun. (Greek god) A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crius

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Crimean peninsula
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Criminal Investigation Command
Crinoidea
Crioulo
Crip
Crips
Crispin
Crispus
Cristobal
Cristobal Balenciaga
Cristobal Colon
Cristoforo Colombo
Crius (current term)
Crixivan
Crna Gora
Cro-Magnon
Cro-magnon
Croat
Croatia
Croatian
Croatian Sheepdog
Croatian Sheepdogs
Croatians
Croation
Croato-Serbian
Croats
Crocanthemum canadensei

Literary usage of Crius

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version by Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, John Gardner Wilkinson (1859)
"This he said in consequence of instructions which he had received from Demaratus.6 Hereupon Cleomenes, finding that he must quit Egina, asked Crius his name ..."

2. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus, George Rawlinson, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, John Gardner Wilkinson (1889)
"This he said in consequence of instructions which he had received from Demaratus.6 Hereupon Cleomenes, finding that he must quit Egina, asked Crius his name ..."

3. The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus (1904)
"... asked Crius what his name was; and he told him the truth; whereupon Cleomenes said to him, " Now then tip your horns with brass, O Crius,1 as you will ..."

4. Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr, with a by Herodotus, Henry Cary, Johann Christian Felix Bähr (1852)
"... asked Crius what his name was ; and he told him the truth ; whereupon Cleomenes said to him, "Now then tip your horns with brass, 0 Crius,8 as you will ..."

5. The Description of Greece by Pausanias (1824)
"... was honoured in Sparta before the children of Hercules returned from banishment: and a small temple was raised to him in the house of the prophet Crius, ..."

6. Pausanias' Description of Greece by Pausanias (1900)
"As .the daughter of this Crius was drawing water, some Dorian spies met her and had a conversation with her, and went to Crius, and learnt of him the way to ..."

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