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custos ille Cretum: i.e. the bronze giant Talus, devised by Daedalus and made by Hephaestus for King Minos, who strode from headland to headland, making the circuit of the island thrice daily; cf. Apoll. Rh. 4.1638ff.; Apollod. 1.9.26.3ff.


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