 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 900 pages
...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", in... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 808 pages
...;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...and three in. the evening. Upon this Creon king of /Triebes promifed his crown and his fifter Jocafta, ^jj£,widow of king Laius, in marriage to him who... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1831 - 512 pages
...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... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1832 - 444 pages
...herself as soon as one of the enigmas she proposed was explained. ln this enigma she wished to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening. lt was at last happily explained hy <Edipus, who ohserved that man walked on his hands and feet when... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Classical antiquities - 1837 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art - 1841 - 806 pages
...could not explain them. At length one of the 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 (Edipus : he said that the animal was man, who in the morning of life creeps... | |
 | 1848 - 306 pages
...herself as soon as one of the enigmas she proposed was explained — in this enigma she wanted to know what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening. This OEdipus explains, by stating that man in childhood (morning) walks on his hands and feet ; in... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1852 - 114 pages
...thus ran the oraeular saying on whose solution so mueh depended — " What is that animal whieh walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening ? " Doubtless most of our readers are aequainted with the answer l for the benefit of sueh as are not,... | |
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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... 
