...a monster sent by Juno to lay waste the neighborhood of Thebes in Bceotia. It had the head and bust of a woman, the body of a dog, the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. die was explained. Upon hearing this, Creon, King of Thebes, promised his crown...

...a monster sent by Juno to lay waste the neighborhood of Thebes in Boeotia. It had the head and bust of a woman, the body of a dog. the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. This terrible monster soon became the terror of the country, by proposing the riddle...

...eternal. SOMNCS, son of Nox and Erobus. was one of the infernal deities, and presided over sleep. SPHINX. A monster, having the head and breasts of a woman,...a dog, the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, and the paws of a lion. STYX. A celebrated river of. the infernal regions. The gods held it in such...

...eternal. Sovxvs, son of Nox and Erebos, was one of the infernal deities, and presided over sleep. SPHINX. A monster, having the head and breasts of a woman,...a dog. the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, and the paws of u lion. STYX. Л celebrated river of the infernal regions. The gods held it in such...

...eternal. SOMNUS, son of Nox and Erebus, was one of the infernal deities, and presided over sleep. SPHINX. A monster, having the head and breasts of a woman,...a dog, the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, and the paws of a lion. STYX. A celebrated river of the infernal regions. The gods held it in such...

...Psyche. South Wind, see Auster. Spear, see Pelias. Sphinx, The. A monster having the head and breast of a woman, the body of a dog, the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. She lived in the country near Thebes, and proposed to every passer-by the following...

...Soz'omen. A historian who died 45o AD He wrote an important work on ecclestiastical history. Sphinx. A monster, having the head and breasts of a woman,...a dog, the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, and the paws of a lion. The Sphinx was sent into the neighborhood of Thebes by Juno, where she propounded...

...mythology of the Greeks. Lempriere, in his " Classic Dictionary," refers to them as " monsters which had the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog,...serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. It sprang from the union of Orthos witli the Chimrcra, or of Typhon with Echidna....

...Juno, as the safeguard of women. So' ter. A Greek name of Jupiter, meaning deliverer. Sphinx, The. A monster having the head and breasts of a woman,...serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. She lived in the country near Thebes, and proposed to every passer-by the following...

...odious stench and polluted all they touched. The Sphinx was another composite fabled monster, / with the head and breasts of a woman, the body of a dog,...serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a lion, and a human voice. According to the Grecian poets the animal infested the city of Thebes, devouring...