Sphinx

sfingks, n. \ancteni myth a monster with the head of a woman and th*» body of a lione , that proposed riddles to travellers, and strangled these who could not solve them. (Lit ‘the throttler,’ Gr -- pkinggo, tyhingjcd, to squeeze, akin to L flgo, to fix Spice, spTs, », an aromatic vegetable used for seasoning food, formerly urie of the m