Crossword-Solution: GYGES
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| GYGES | anagram | YEGGS |
We have 4 clues for the answer “GYGES”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Fabulous Lydian king, owner of a magic ring. | 1 answer |
| GYAS | 1 answer |
| Ring of ___ (mythological Greek artifact that rendered its wearer invisible) | 1 answer |
| Giant | 69 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "GYGES"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
8 +1
New Suggestion for "GYGES"
Related word tools
Sentences with GYGES (5)
The liberty which we are supposing may be most completely given to them in the form of such a power as is said to have been possessed by Gyges the ancestor of Croesus the Lydian.
According to the tradition, Gyges was a shepherd in the service of the king of Lydia; there was a great storm, and an earthquake made an opening in the earth at the place where he was feeding his flock.
Let a man do what is just, whether he have the ring of Gyges or not, and even if in addition to the ring of Gyges he put on the helmet of Hades.
Our bewildered soldiers heard them shooting, now before, now behind them, as they glided from place to place through fissures and subterranean passes, all the while as invisible as Gyges wearing his magic ring.
The choice of Gyges, may serve as the excuse of Peredeus; and this soft insinuation of an odious idea has been imitated by the best writers of antiquity, (Graevius, ad Ciceron.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1952–2014).