...proposed, and which she had learned from the Muses. The question was this: "What animal is that which goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noon, and on three in the evening?" The Thebans often met to try their skill, and when they had failed, the Sphinx carried...

...white bones. ' Well/ said the young man, 'the enigma.' < It is this: What animal walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night ?' Œdipus thought for a moment with a smile of disdain, which could not but make the Sphinx uneasy....

...bird, the body of a dog, and the paws of a lion ; and whose riddle " What animal walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night ? " so puzzled the Thebans, that King Creon offered his crown and his daughter Jocasta to any one who...

...Thebans might not be delivered from her ravages until it was answered: " What animal is that which goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noon, and on three in the evening ? " CEdipus gave the answer, " Man," and solved the riddle. 53 7. Dum tacet hanc loquitur,...

...Thebans might not be delivered from her ravages until it was answered : " What animal is that which goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noon, and on three in the evening ? " CEdipus gave the answer, " Man," and solved the riddle. 53 7. Dum tacet hanc loquitur,...

...Thebans might not be delivered from her ravages until it was answered : " What animal is that which goes on four feet in the morning, on two at noon, and on three in the evening ? " CEdipus gave the answer, " Man," and solved the riddle. 53 7. Dum tacet hanc loquitur,...

...a penny in, So buy* some bread with that. 7. RIDDLES — What animal is it that goes* on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night? — Man — as he goes* on hands and knees in childhood (or the morning of life) ; on his feet in his...

...failed to give the correct answer forfeited his life. The question was, "What animal goes on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night?" CEdipus guessed the riddle by answering that this animal is man, who in infancy crawls, at maturity...

...bird, the body of a dog, and the paws of a lion; and whose riddle, " What animal walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night ? " so puzzled the Thebans, that King Creon offered his crown and his daughter Jocasta to any one who...

...except when there fell from her cruel lips this question, " What is that animal which walks on four legs in the morning, on two at noon, and on three at night ? " Woe to the person who had no correct answer to give her ! The Sphinx ate him alive. One day a very...