Category: The Times – Specialist Crossword Answers
4-December-2021 | Page 1 of 1 | Crossword Answers 911
- 1.Snare, noose (abl. sing.); ____ gulam fregere, an instance of capital punishment (vide Sall. Cat. 55.4) (6)
- 2.Stomach or throat, vaccarum enim pars est
- 3.Unspeakable, eg Aen 2.3. ____ , regina, iubes renovare dolorem
- 4.I wash away, cleanse, purgo, elavo
- 5.The act of freeing, deliverance, release (gen. sing.) (12)
- 6.That thing, neut. nom/acc. sing.
- 7.Priest, sacerdos, antistes, pontifex
- 8.A roundabout path, hence a complicated story, eg Venus's account of the founding of Carthage, Aen. 1.342 (7)
- 9.He brandishes, wields, as Turnus does his spear, vide Aen. 12.94
- 10.Part of the Roman Empire north of the Alps (full of long-haired foreigners?), vide eg Tac. Ann. 11.23
- 11.Function, habit, employment (acc.sing.)
- 12.Ceremonial rattle (nom. sing.) — concealed by Isis, trumpet-substitute for Cleopatra (as in Aen. 8.696 in abl. sing.)
- 13.They throng, frequent; (of birds) quae loca aquarum ____ , Lucr. DRN 2.345
- 14.Fields, agri, campi, agelli
- 15.She herself — the mistress
- 16.Germani confusi — produce queen (acc.)
- 17.Of oxen, pecudum — a good thing, losing heart?
- 18.Poem or song — brought by males behind the wheel?
- 19.At mens mutata, twisted thread, warp
- 20.It might surpass, imperf. subj., same stem as excel but different prefix (vide, Tac. Hist. 2.3)
- 21.I have sprung up, flourished, effloresco, efflorescere, ____
- 22.Six-a-side? Shoot (eg salicis, non 'conice!')
- 23.____ frigora, morning chills, Hor. Sat. 2.6.45
- 24.The Governor of the farm?
