 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Art - 1855 - 772 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 CEdipus : he said that the animal was man, who in the morning of life creeps... | |
 | E. W. Payne - Archaeological museums and collections - 1858 - 192 pages
...have destroyed herself when CEdipus expounded her famous riddle, ' "What animal is that which walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening ? ' " The Egyptians sculptured six varieties of sphinx ; the simple lions, such as those in red granite... | |
 | George Leighton Ditson - Egypt - 1858 - 638 pages
...monster, called forth the powers of QEdipus, who solved the following question : What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon and three in the evening? QEdipus said that man, when young, 194 A PILGRIMAGE FROM PARIS TO ETHIOPIA. went on his hands and feet,... | |
 | David Austin Randall - Bible - 1862 - 732 pages
...an end to herself if one of her riddles was explained. At last came this enigma: " What animal walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?" The terrified inhabitants offered a crowu and the daughter of a king for a wife to any one who would... | |
 | Laura Valentine - Amusements - 1867 - 630 pages
...deliverer of the country from this creature. The Sphinx demanded of him, " What animal it was that walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening." (Edipus replied "MAN! who crawls in infancy, walks erect in manhood, and supports his steps in age... | |
 | Laura Valentine - Amusements - 1869 - 216 pages
...deliverer of the country from this creature. The Sphinx demanded of him, " What animal it was that walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening." (Edipus replied "MAN! who crawls in infancy, walks erect in manhood, and supports his steps in age... | |
 | William Charles Mark Kent - Mythology, Classical - 1870 - 144 pages
...sister Jocasta to whoever should prove conqueror. Lured by this bribe, CEdipus solved the enigma as to what animal walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, by answering that man walked on his hands and feet when young, or in the morning of his life, at the... | |
 | 1870 - 972 pages
...AND FANS. ГТШЕ stafffor old age is immemorial. "What _L animal," asked the Sphinx, "walks upon four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening ?" CEdipus solved the enigma : " Man creeps in the morning of life, walks erect at noon, and supports... | |
 | Mrs. Caroline L. Smith - Amusements - 1872 - 426 pages
...will give this famous riddle, as many little ones may not know it. 22. " What animal is it that walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening." 3.— DOUBLE ACROSTIC CHARADES, AND CROSS-WORD ENIGMAS. DOUBLE acrostic, in which the initials and... | |
 | Amusements - 1899 - 666 pages
...deliverer of the country from this creature. The Sphinx demanded of him, " What animal it was that walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening." (Edipus replied "MAN! who crawls in infancy, walks erect in manhood, and supports his steps in age... | |
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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... 
