Maze-minder of myth

Usage examples of minos.

True, many of my works perished with the world of Minos, but many yet survive.

But it was farther from Crete and Minos, and that made it to my liking.

The air of urgency that had filled the palace of Minos was absent here.

I had seen how Pasiphaë and Minos were led into suffering and disgrace because of her anger, and how Minos, in turn, used the force of love to turn Scylla against her father and her people, only to have his own daughter taken from him by Aphrodite's power in the service of Theseus.

I have no love for Minos myself, so you need not fear betrayal from me.

But Minos learns of everything that happens in the lands around the Great Sea.

But after that, I woke each day wondering when Minos would come for me.

On his very first visit to the palace, Minos insisted on seeing your works.

Though I had no love for Minos, I did not want him murdered -- not for his sake, but for the sake of those three girls I had come to love as my own daughters.

Good or bad, Minos was a king, and to slay a king is a deed the gods are sure to punish.

Giving myself up to Minos would not save any of those who had helped me.

I thought of stealing upon Minos and slaying him before his guards could stop me.

But after the death of Minos, my affection was always clouded by the memory of that morning.

Was I given the dream of the honeycomb and the secret of making it in order to lure Minos to his death?

There was no Minos to lead the rebuilding and no Daedalus to raise an even greater city out of the rubble.