RHADAMANTHUS • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Rhadamanthus

... stupid is what I mean, but I am afraid it would not be polite to employ that word, so I merely give you the meaning, and leave you to choose a word to your liking—ideas about the nature, the facts, and the objects of writing. Look at it a moment. With your gray goose-quill you sit, O Rhadamanthus, and to your waiting audience pleasantly enough affirm that I have "taken Benlomond for my model." But when I happen to remember that the larger part of my book was written and printed not only before I had ever met Benlomond, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various

... Cretan Rhadamanthus, strict and stern, His kingdom holds. Each trespass, now confessed, He hears and punishes; each tells in turn The sin, with idle triumph long suppressed, Till death has bared the secrets of the breast. Swift ...

— The Aeneid of Virgil - Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor • Virgil