was a son of Lycaetes, the son of Minos I., and king of Crete. He married Pasiphae, the daughter of Sol and Perseis, and by her he had many children. He increased his paternal dominions by the conquest of the neighbouring islands; but showed himself cruel in the war which he carried on against the Athenians, who had put to death his son Androgeus. He took Megara by the treachery of Scylla; and not satisfied with victory, he obliged the vanquished to bring him yearly to Crete seven chosen boys and the same number of virgins to be devoured by the Minotaur. This bloody tribute was at last abolished when Theseus had destroyed the monster. When Daedalus, whose industry and invention had fabricated the labyrinth, and whose imprudence in afflicting Pasiphae in the gratification of her unnatural desires, had offended Minos, fled from the place of his confinement with wings, and arrived safe in Sicily; the incensed monarch pursued the offender, resolved to punish his infidelity. Cocalus, king of Sicily, who had hospitably received Daedalus, entertained his royal guest with dissembled friendship; and, that he might not deliver to him a man whose ingenuity and abilities he so well knew, he put Minos to death. Minos died about 35 years before the Trojan war. He was father of Androgeus, Glaucon, and Deucalion; and two daughters, Phaedra, and Ariadne. Many authors have confounded the two Minoses, the grandfather and the grandson; but Homer, Plutarch, and Diodorus, prove plainly that they were two different persons.