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Look up: Epimenides

  1. Epimenides
    (lived 6th century BC) Cretan poet and prophet, born at Phaestus. Although his life story includes a wealth of legend, he is known to have visited Athens at the invitation of Solon in about 596 BC in order to purify the...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  2. Epimenides
    Cretan seer, reputed author of religious and poetical writings, including a Theogony, Cretica, and other mystical works. Religious theories of an ...
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/36

  3. Epimenides
    Epimenides (epimen'idēz) , fl. 6th cent.? B.C., Cretan prophet and miracle worker. According to one story, he was called to Athens to purify the city after the murder of Cylon on the Acropolis. Many poems, oracles, and sayings were attributed to him (Titus 1.12 is supposed to contain one o...
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  4. Epimenides
    Epimenides was an ancient Greek philosopher and poet. He was born in the 7th century BC at Crete. He was held for an infallible prophet, and by some is reckoned among the seven wise men, instead of Periander. He is supposed to be the prophet referred to by St Paul in Titus, chapter 1 verse 12.
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  5. Epimenides
    `Epimenides` of Knossos (Ἐπιμενίδης-->) was a semi-Greek mythology|mythical 6th century BC Greek seer and philosopher-poet. While tending his father`s sheep, he is said to have fallen asleep for fifty-seven years in a Cretan cave sacred to Zeus, after which he repor...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epimenides

  6. Epimenides
    (crater) `Epimenides` is a lunar crater that is located in the southwestern part of the Moon`s near side, just to the east of the oddly shaped crater Hainzel. Just to the north and northeast is Lacus Timoris, a small lunar mare. The crater is 27 kilometers in diameter and 2,000 meters deep. I...
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