Creone

1. alternativeAlternative form of Creon.

   Her death was avenged on Creone by Theseus, and her name has been immortalized in a tragedy by Sophocles.

   1857, Henry Gardiner Adams, A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography

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   In a famous passage from Sophocles' drama, the Greek princess, Antigone, defends her disobedience of Creone's harsh decree that her brother's body should not be buried, by invoking The unwritten laws of God that know not change.

   1955, Arthur Léon Harding, Albert Cook Outler, Natural law and natural rights, page 53

   It is this that Sophocles caused Antigone to debate with Creone after she had violated his law by giving burial to her brother:

   1968, Thomas M. Franck, The structure of impartiality

plural Creones

1. A member of a tribe that lived in what is now part of Scotland.

   The west coast of Ross, from Volias-sinus, on the north, to the Ityo, on the south, was inhabited by the Creones, who derived their British name from their fiercencis ; Crewon, or Creuonwys, signifying the men of blood.

   1807, George Chalmers, Caledonia, page 68

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   At the commencement of these wars, a younger son of the royal family of the Creones in Caledonia, having been sent over with succours to the Britons, was chosen their Pendragon by the kings ; and the crown was fixed hereditary in his family. And, soon after the conclusion of them, the royal line of the Creones being extinguished, their domions must necessarily have devolved to the monarchs of Ireland.

   1772, John Whitaker, The Genuine History of the Britons Asserted

   In the west, to the north of Mull were the Creones, falling in with the north part of Argyleshire and the west part of Rosshire ; to the north of these again were the Carnonacae, being the west part also of Rosshire ; opposite to the two first is the isle of Skye, the ancient Dumna.

   1887, Publications of the Scottish History Society, page 115