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Rhad·a·man·thus

also Rhad·a·man·thys (răd′ə-măn′thəs)

n. Greek Mythology

A son of Zeus and Europa who, in reward for his exemplary sense of justice, was made a judge of the underworld after his death.

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Rhadamanthus

(ˌrædəˈmænθəs) or

Rhadamanthys

(Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth one of the judges of the dead in the underworld

ˌRhadaˈmanthine adj

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Rhadamanthus - (Greek mythology) a judge of the dead in the underworld

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long life to Altisidora!" The duke and duchess and the kings Minos and Rhadamanthus stood up, and all, together with Don Quixote and Sancho, advanced to receive her and take her down from the catafalque; and she, making as though she were recovering from a swoon, bowed her head to the duke and duchess and to the kings, and looking sideways at Don Quixote, said to him, "God forgive thee, insensible knight, for through thy cruelty I have been, to me it seems, more than a thousand years in the other world; and to thee, the most compassionate upon earth, I render thanks for the life I am now in possession of.

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If indeed when the pilgrim arrives in the world below, he is delivered from the professors of justice in this world, and finds the true judges who are said to give judgment there, Minos and Rhadamanthus and Aeacus and Triptolemus, and other sons of God who were righteous in their own life, that pilgrimage will be worth making.

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Zeus appoints as judges his own sons: two from Asia, Minos and Rhadamanthus, and one from Europe, Aeacus.