 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 extending from his neck to his ankles, and a bronze nail was rammed home at the end of the vein.