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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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