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|Text=[[ | |Text=[[Λάϊος]], ὁ, or say, [[son of Labdacus]]. | ||
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|lshtext=<b>Lāĭus</b>: or Lajus, i (voc. Lai, Stat. Th. 7, 355), m., = Λάιος,<br /><b>I</b> [[son]] of [[Labdacus]], [[king]] of [[Thebes]], and [[father]] of Œdipus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 33, 71; id. Fat. 13, 30; Stat. Th. 2, 7; 66. —Hence, Lāĭădes, ae, m., a [[male]] [[descendant]] of [[Laius]], i. e. Œdipus, Ov. M. 7, 759. | |lshtext=<b>Lāĭus</b>: or Lajus, i (voc. Lai, Stat. Th. 7, 355), m., = [[Λάιος]],<br /><b>I</b> [[son]] of [[Labdacus]], [[king]] of [[Thebes]], and [[father]] of Œdipus, Cic. Tusc. 4, 33, 71; id. Fat. 13, 30; Stat. Th. 2, 7; 66. —Hence, Lāĭădes, ae, m., a [[male]] [[descendant]] of [[Laius]], i. e. Œdipus, Ov. M. 7, 759. | ||
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|gf=<b>Lāĭus</b>¹³ <b>(</b>ou <b>Lājus)</b>, ī, m. (Λάϊος), roi de Thèbes, père d’Œdipe : Cic. Tusc. 4, 71 ; Stat. Th. 2, 7. | |gf=<b>Lāĭus</b>¹³ <b>(</b>ou <b>Lājus)</b>, ī, m. ([[Λάϊος]]), roi de Thèbes, père d’Œdipe : Cic. Tusc. 4, 71 ; Stat. Th. 2, 7. | ||
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|georg=Lāius, iī, m. ([[Λάϊος]]), [[Sohn]] [[des]] Labdakus, [[König]] in Theben, [[Vater]] [[des]] Ödipus, Stat. Theb. 1, 296 u. 7, 355 (wo Vok. Lai). Hyg. fab. 66 sq. – Dav. Lāiadēs, ae, m., der Laiade (männl. [[Nachkomme]] [[des]] [[Laius]]), v. Ödipus, Ov. [[met]]. 7, 759. | |||
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|wketx=In Greek mythology, King [[Laius]] (/ˈleɪəs, ˈlaɪəs/ L(A)Y-əs) or [[Laios]] (Ancient Greek: [[Λάϊος]], romanized: Láïos) of [[Thebes]] was a key personage in the Theban founding myth. Laius was the son of [[Labdacus]]. He was the father, by [[Jocasta]], of [[Oedipus]], who killed him. | |||
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In Greek mythology, [[Laius]] (/ˈleɪəs, ˈlaɪəs/ L(A)Y-əs; Ancient Greek: [[Λάϊος]], romanized: Láïos) is a Cretan man who attempted to steal from [[Zeus]], the king of gods, and was punished for it. He was transformed into [[bird]] for attempting to steal from him. | |||
The Cretan [[Laius]] and three other men, [[Cerberus]], [[Aegolius]] and [[Celeus]] entered the sacred cave of Zeus in Crete where the young god had been born and brought up with the aim to steal some of the sacred honey produced there by Zeus's former bee nurses. Zeus thundered and stripped them of their brazen armors. He meant to kill them all, but the goddess of justice Themis and the Fates advised Zeus against doing that, saying the cave as a holy place should not have anyone be killed inside it. So Zeus turned them all into birds instead; Laius became a blue thrush (laios). Laius shares a name with a mythical king of Thebes, the father of Oedipus. | |||
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