Crossword-Solution: LAIUS
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LAIUS | anagram | ALIUS, AULIS, LUISA |
We have 16 clues for the answer “LAIUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Father and victim of Oedipus | 1 answer |
| Father of Oedipus | 1 answer |
| He was killed by Oedipus | 1 answer |
| OEDIPUS, father of | 1 answer |
| Oedipus father | 1 answer |
| Oedipus's father | 1 answer |
| father Oedipus | 1 answer |
| Mythical king of Thebes | 2 answers |
| OEDIPUS, victim of | 2 answers |
| husband daughter ISMEME ANTIGONE | 2 answers |
| Biblical murder victim | 10 answers |
| daughter Oedipus | 10 answers |
| all Oedipus | 10 answers |
| an epoch Oedipus | 11 answers |
| DAUGHTER ISMEME ANTIGONE HUSBAND | 11 answers |
| *Daughter of Oedipus | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LAIUS (5)
Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge From the Loeb Library Edition Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London First published in 1912 ARGUMENT To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother.
Afterwards doubting his parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the word declared before to Laius.
Wherefore he fled from what he deemed his father’s house and in his flight he encountered and unwillingly slew his father Laius.
The purport of the answer that the God Returned to us who sought his oracle, The messengers have doubtless told thee—how One course alone could rid us of the pest, To find the murderers of Laius, And slay them or expel them from the land.
Hear then: this man whom thou hast sought to arrest With threats and warrants this long while, the wretch Who murdered Laius—that man is here.
Quotes with LAIUS (1)
TEIRESIAS: I tell you, king, this man, this murderer(whom you have long declared you are in search of, indicting him in threatening proclamationas murderer of Laius)- he is here. In name he is a stranger among citizensbut soon he will be shown to be a citizentrue native Theban, and he'll have no joyof the discovery: blindness for sightand beggary for riches his exchange, he shall go journeying to a foreign countrytapping his way before him with a stick. He shall be proved fat…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1970–2011).