 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - Liczba stron: 900
...deftroy herfelf as foon as one of the enigmas (he propfjfed was explainixl. In thil ccigma fhe wifbed to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening. Upon thi-> Creon' kirir of Thebes promifed his crown and hi? i.fler Jocalta, the widow of king Lain",... | |
 | Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1812 - Liczba stron: 500
...the oi-acle, that the Sphinx would destroy herself as soon as one of her enigma's was explained. In this enigma she wished to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noou, and three in the evening. Upon this CreO'i, king of Thebes, promised h>- crown and liia sister... | |
 | 1816 - Liczba stron: 808
...;n fouu ;is one of the enigmas die prep IVd was fxpliiiced. In thij }J n . enigma enigma me wiflied to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning,* two at noon, and three in. the evening. Upon this Creon king of /Triebes promifed his crown and his fifter Jocafta, ^jj£,widow of king Laius,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - Liczba stron: 742
...by the oracle, that the Sphinx would destroy herself as soon as one of her enigmas was explained. In this enigma she wished to know what animal walked...the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening. Upon this Creon, king of Thebes, promised his crown and his lister Jocasta in marriage to him who could... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Liczba stron: 424
...that the sphinx •would destroy herself as soon as one of the enigmas she proposed was explained. In this enigma she wished to know what animal walked...the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening. Upon this Creon king of Thebes promised his crown and his sister Jocasta, the widow of king Laius,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Liczba stron: 842
...that the sphinx would destroy herself as soon as one of the enigmas she proposed was explained. In this enigma she wished to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and Uree in the evening. Upon this Creon king of Thebes promised his crown and his sister Jocasta, 'he... | |
 | 1831 - Liczba stron: 512
...the (enigmas she proposed was explained.. In thisaenigma she wished to know what animal walked upon four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, — which was explained by CEdipus, who observed that it was man, who walked on his hands and feet... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - Liczba stron: 628
...to explain them. The Tbebans were told by the orni-le that the sphinx would riseoonas Ol mas ; as, what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and tining. 1 i pon lliis, ( 'mm, king of Th' his crown mid Join marriage to him who should liver his country... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1837 - Liczba stron: 372
...could not explain them. At length one of tho enigmas, in which she demanded what animal it was which walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three at night, was solved by CEdipus. He said that the animal was man, who in the morning of life creeps... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1838 - Liczba stron: 626
...as soon as one of the enigmas she proposed was explained. In this enigma, the question proposed was, what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening. Upon this, Creon, king of Thebes, promised his crown and his sister Jocasta in marriage to him who... | |
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You gave the wrong answer,' said the sphinx. 'But that was what made everything possible,' said Oedipus. 'No.' she said. 'When I asked, what walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, you answered Man. You didn't say anything... 
