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AGAMEDES , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of Erginus, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Orchomenus in See also:Boeotia. He is always associated with his See also:brother Trophonius as a wonderful architect, the constructor of under-ground shrines and grottos for the reception of hidden treasure. When See also:building a treasureshouse' for Hyrieus, the See also:brothers fixed one of the stones in the See also:wall so that they could remove it whenever they pleased, and from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time carried off some of the treasure. Hyrieus thereupon set a See also:trap in which Agamedes was caught; Trophonius, to prevent See also:discovery, cut off his brother's See also:head and fled with it. He was pursued by Hyrieus, and swallowed up by the See also:earth in the See also:grove of Lebadeia. On this spot was the See also:oracle of Trophonius in an underground See also:cave; those who wished to consult it first offered the See also:sacrifice of a See also:ram and called upon the name of Agamedes. A similar See also:story is See also:toad of See also:Rhampsinitus by See also:Herodotus (ii. 121). According to See also:Pindar (apud See also:Plutarch), the brothers built the See also:temple of See also:Apollo at See also:Delphi; when they asked for a See also:reward, the See also:god promised them one in seven days; on the seventh See also:day they died.
See also:Pausanias ix. 37; Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, 14; See also:Cicero, Tusc. Disp. i. 47.
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