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laius
/ˈlaɪ.əs/
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What does laius mean?
proper noun
- The father of Oedipus and husband of Jocasta
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/ˈlaɪ.əs/
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Wherefore he fled from what he deemed his father’s house and in his flight he encountered and unwillingly slew his father Laius.
It was not the disaster of Laius, as the poets imagine, that first gave rise to this form of attachment amongst the Thebans, but their law-givers, designing to soften, whilst they were young, their natural fierceness, brought, for example, the pipe into great esteem, both in serious and sportive occasions, and gave great encouragement to these friendships in the Palaestra, to temper the manners and characters of the youth.