Titus 1:12

One of them, a prophet of their own. [9] He does not mean a true prophet, but as the pretended prophets of Baal were called prophets. St. Paul understands Epimenides, a poet of Crete, who by some pagan authors was thought to know things to come; but Aristotle says, he knew only things past, not to come. The ill character he gave of the Cretians was, that they were always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies, addicted to idleness and sensual pleasures. (Witham)

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Propheta, Greek: prophetes. Cretenses, semper mendaces, malæ bestiæ, ventres pigri; Greek: Kretes, aei pseustai, kaka theria, gasteres argai. Aristotle, lib. iii. Rhetor. chap. xvii. Epimenides ille de futuris non vaticinabatur: Greek: peri ton esomenon ouk emanteueto, alla peri ton gegonoton. --- Greek: Kretixeiin was proverbially used for uttering falsehood, and it was a received adage, and very illiberal on the inhabitants of Crete, Cappadocia, and Cilicia. Greek: Kretes, Kappodokes, Kilikes, tria Kappa Kakista.