Minos. Son of Lycastus, and grandson of the former, was likewise a king and lawgiver of Crete. In order to avenge the wrong done to his son Androgeos at Athens, he made war against the Athenians and compelled them to send to Crete every year, as a tribute, seven youths and seven maidens, to be devoured in the labyrinth by the Minotaur. From Minos we have Minois, a daughter or a female descendant of Minos, as Ariadne, and the adjectives Minoius and Minous, used by the poets as equivalent to Cretan.
