Rhadamanthus

, a son of Jupiter and Europa. He was born in Crete, which he abandoned about the 30th year of his age. He pa ed into some of the Cyclades, where he reigned with so much justice and impartiality, that the ancients have said he became one of the judges of hell, and that he was employed in the infernal regions in obliging the dead to confe their crimes, and in punishing them for their offences. Rhadamanthus reigned not only over some of the Cyclades, but over many of the Greek cities of Asia. Pausanias , bk. 8 , ch. 53 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 9 , li. 435 .— Diodorus , bk. 5 .— Plato. — Homer . Iliad , bk. 4 , li. 564 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 6 , li. 566 .