Crossword-Solution: ALCINOUS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Neererhe drew, and many a walk travers’d Of stateliest Covert, Cedar, Pine, or Palme, Then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen Among thick-wov’n Arborets and Flours Imborderd on each Bank, the hand of _Eve_: Spot more delicious then those Gardens feign’d Or of reviv’d _Adonis_, or renownd _Alcinous_, host of old _Laertes_ Son, Or that, not Mystic, where the Sapient King Held dalliance with his faire _Egyptian_ Spouse.

SOCRATES Well, I said, I will tell you a tale; not one of the tales which Odysseus tells to the hero Alcinous, yet this too is a tale of a hero, Er the son of Armenius, a Pamphylian by birth.

Nor of one kind alone are sturdy elms, Willow and lotus, nor the cypress-trees Of Ida; nor of self-same fashion spring Fat olives, orchades, and radii And bitter-berried pausians, no, nor yet Apples and the forests of Alcinous; Nor from like cuttings are Crustumian pears And Syrian, and the heavy hand-fillers.

Come up with me to the palace of Alcinous, the rich sea-going king, and we will feast you well and heartily; and after that you shall tell us your name.’ But Medeia hung back, and trembled, and whispered in Jason’s ear, ‘We are betrayed, and are going to our ruin, for I see my countrymen among the crowd; dark-eyed Colchi in steel mail-shirts, such as they wear in my father’s land.’ ‘It is too late to turn,’ said Jason.

And the Minuai went on in silence through clean white marble streets, till they came to the hall of Alcinous, and they wondered then still more.