See also:

• PROCRUSTES (Gr. for " the stretcher ")

PROCRUSTES (Gr. for " the stretcher ")  , also called PoLYPEMON Or DAMASTES, in See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, a robber dwelling in the neighbourhood of See also:

• ELEUSIS

Eleusis, who was slain by See also:

• THESEUS

Theseus . He had two bedsteads (according to some, only one), the one very See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, the other very See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short . When a stranger claimed his hospitality, See also:

• PROCRUSTES (Gr. for " the stretcher ")

Procrustes compelled him, if he was tall, to See also:

• LIE, JONAS LAURITZ EDEMIL (1833—1908)
• LIE, MARIUS SOPHUS (1842–1899)

lie down on the short See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed, and then cut off his extremities to make him See also:

• FIT

fit . If on the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand he was short, he was placed on the long bedstead and his limbs pulled out until he died from exhaustion . The " bed of Procrustes " has become proverbial . Diod . Sic. iv . 59;, See also:

• HYGINUS
• HYGINUS (surnamed GROMATICUS, from gruma, a surveyor's measuring-rod)
• HYGINUS, GAIUS JULIUS

Hyginus, lab . 38; See also:

• PLUTARCH
• PLUTARCH (Gr. llXoi rapxos) (c. A.D. 46–120)

Plutarch, Theseus, I1; See also:

• PAUSANIAS

Pausanias i . 38, 5 .