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Crete

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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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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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