Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun Greek mythology A Titan, the son of Uranus and Gaia.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Crius.

Examples

  • They meant titan as a person or thing of enormous size, strength, power, influence not like the sons of Uranus and Gaea, including Coeus, Crius, Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus.

    Clash of the Titans is a GO!!! scifirantergirl 2007

  • But afterwards she lay with Heaven and bare deep-swirling Oceanus, Coeus and Crius and Hyperion and Iapetus, Theia and Rhea, Themis and Mnemosyne and gold-crowned Phoebe and lovely Tethys.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • Cleomenes soon returned and arrested Crius, along with nine other prominent Aeginetans, and he sent them all as hostages to their bitterest enemies, the Athenians.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Cleomenes soon returned and arrested Crius, along with nine other prominent Aeginetans, and he sent them all as hostages to their bitterest enemies, the Athenians.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Crius was not intimidated by the Spartan, whom he accused of having taken bribes.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Polycritus son of Crius was a man whose pride in his pedigree would have shown up a Persian grandee.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Polycritus son of Crius was a man whose pride in his pedigree would have shown up a Persian grandee.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Crius was not intimidated by the Spartan, whom he accused of having taken bribes.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Polycritus son of Crius, heir to a family that is second to none in Aegina either in lineage or wealth, sits in the stern and waits.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Polycritus son of Crius, heir to a family that is second to none in Aegina either in lineage or wealth, sits in the stern and waits.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.