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Show yj Procrustes' Bed? . Procrustes, according to Greek legend, was a robber of. Attica wlio ; made it a practice to place every-j every-j body he captured on an iron bed. If ! the victim was too long for the 1 bed he cut off the superfluous pnrt; if .shorter he stretched the body to make it the required length. Theseus The-seus finally .slew the fiend. An at-; at-; tempt to reduce people to one standard way' of thinking or noting I is known as placing them on' the ! bed of Pmrnistcs. I n |