Gnossus

American  

[nos-uhs] / ˈnɒs əs /

noun

1. Knossos.

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Other Word Forms

• Gnossian
  adjective

Example Sentences

Spear-renowned Idomeneus commanded the Cretans, those who possessed Gnossus and well-walled Gortyna and Lyctos, and Miletus, and white Lycastus and Phæstus, and Rhytium, well-inhabited cities; and others who inhabited the hundred-towned Crete.

From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois

At Gnossus an Englishman, Sir Arthur Evans, has found the remains of an enormous palace, with numerous courts, passages, and rooms.

From Early European History by Webster, Hutton

Then all the peaks of Gnossus kindled red Beckoning afar unto the sinking sun, he thro' the vaporous west plunged to his bed, Sunk, and the day was done.

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Bridges, Robert

But Epimenides refused all compensation, and only required, as an acknowledgment of what he had done, that there should be perpetual peace between the Athenians and the people of Gnossus, his native city.

From Lives of the Necromancers by Godwin, William

The Curetes, in Crete, had builded an altar to Heaven and to Earth; whose Mysteries they celebrated at Gnossus, in a cypress grove.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert