To such men might with justice be applied the poet's description of the cretan warrior; translated by my friend, Dr. Leyden.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
He soon dismissed his man-servant, and the book he had meant to read in the night-a book on the newly-revealed treasures of cretan art-lay ready to his feeble hand on the table by the wide, low bed which was the only new piece of furniture placed there since the room had been the nursery of his happy childhood.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
With Aristotle also Minos is the founder of the cretan laws.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker