Polybus

The second shepherd carries the baby with him to Corinth, where Oedipus is taken in and raised in the court of the childless King Polybus of Corinth as if he were his own.

Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

The second shepherd carries the baby with him to Corinth, where Oedipus is taken in and raised in the court of the childless King Polybus of Corinth as if he were his own.

Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

The messenger, knowing that Merope and Polybus could not bear a child wanted one, gave the baby over to them to raise as their own 58.

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Oedipus is still under the assumption that he is the blood son of Polybus and Merope.

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The messenger just so happens to be the man who gave the baby Oedipus to Polybus and Merope, but he does not know from what house was born into 54.

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But the keepers of the horses of Polybus finding him took him home and laid him in the arms of their mistress.

The Phoenissae 2008

But the keepers of the horses of Polybus finding him took him home and laid him in the arms of their mistress.

The Phoenissae 2008

Polybus, that a hundred and eighty-two days and a half suffice for the bringing forth of a living child; that is, six months, in which space of time the sun moves from one tropic to the other; and this is called seven months, for the days which are over plus in the sixth are accounted to give the seventh month.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

Polybus, Diocles, and the Empirics, acknowledge that the eighth month gives a vital birth to the infant, though the life of it is more faint and languid; many therefore we see born in that month die out of mere weakness.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

A full account is given in the treatise On the Nature of Man, ascribed to Polybus the son-in-law of Hippocrates.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES H. KAHN 1968