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Rhadamanthus

also: Rhadamanthus, Rhadamanthum

Son of Zeus and Europa and brother of Minos, renowned for justice and appointed a judge of the dead in the underworld. Cicero pairs him with Minos as one of the 'inexorable judges' before whom the soul must plead.

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Tusculan Disputations phil · 2 mentions

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