... had given to Medea, jested merrily with the chiefs; whence it is still customary for the women to jest at the sacrifice . Putting to sea from there, they were hindered from touching at Crete by Talos. Some say that he was a man of the Brazen Race, others that he was given to Minos by Hephaestus; he was a brazen man, but some say that he was a bull. He had a single vein ext...