Crossword-Solution: AERE 4 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

You know the poet observes that Democritus was an example - Summos posse viros, et magna exempla daturos Vervecű in patria, crassoque sub aere nasci.

And our author, had his modesty permitted him, might, with Horace, have said, Exegi monumentum aere perennius: [I have raised a memorial more lasting than bronze] Or, with Ovid, Jamque opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis, Nec poterit ferrum, nec edax abolere vetustas.

Temporis quinetiam certis, machina quaedam ex ligno ad formam ovi facta, sacra et mystica, uam foeminas aspicere haud licitam, decem plus minus uncias longa et circa quatuor lata insculpta ac figuris diversis ornata, et ultimam perforata partem ad longam (plerumque e crinibus humanis textam) inscrendam chordam cui nomen "Mooyumkarr," extra castra in gyrum versata, stridore magno e percusso aere facto, libertatem coeundi juventuti esse tum concessam omnibus indicat.

And that no temper of cuirace [Footnote: Cuirass.] may shield or defend you, Ille licet ferro cauius se condat et aere, Mors tamen inclusum protraket inde caput.

Enatum inde monumentum aere perennius, licet passim appareant sinistre dicta, minus perfecta, veritati non satis consentanea.