Gnossus

Historical Examples

• The heifers of Gnossus and of Cydon 751 sighed to mate with him.

  Ars Amatoria, or The Art Of Love

  Ovid

• From Gnossus, whence the Greeks drew all their laws and science, came probably the Greek word gnosis, meaning knowledge.

  Archaic England

  Harold Bayley

• This would be a most extraordinary oversight, as the scene is laid in Crete, in the town of Gnossus.

  Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7)

  Geoffrey Chaucer

• I come to thee a more constant lover; damsel of Gnossus, lay aside thy fear, the wife of Bacchus shalt thou be.

  Ars Amatoria, or The Art Of Love

  Ovid