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Epimenides (ĕpĭmĕn`ĭdēz), fl. 6th cent.? B.C., Cretan prophet and miracle worker. According to one story, he was called to Athens to purify the city after the murder of Cylon on the Acropolis. Many poems, oracles, and sayings were attributed to him (Titus 1.12 is supposed to contain one of these). Epimenides philosopher nods off for 57 years in cave. [Gk. Legend: LLEI, I: 283] See : Sleep |
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Paul tried to build bridges with the pagan Greeks in Athens when he quoted from the poets Epimenides and Aratus of Soli in speaking of "the God in which we live and move and have our being. It seems like we're dealing with another form of the Cretan Paradox--in which Epimenides tells you, "All Cretans are liars"; if he's telling the truth he's lying, and if he's lying he's telling the truth. Athens, where Epimenides, Pisistratus and Solon discuss the policy of Athens (i. |
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