Mīnōus, a, um, adj. [Minos], of or belonging to Minos, Minoan; poet. also for Cretan: Minoa venundata Scylla figura, Prop. 4, 18 (19), 21: Pasiphaë, i. e. the wife of Minos, Aus. Epigr. 66: Thoas, the son of Ariadne, Ov. H. 6, 114: harenae, the shores of Crete, id. Ib. 511.