Crossword-Solution: ALTIS 5 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Thus did men begin to go down upon the sea in ships; _quæque diu steterant in montibus altis, Fluctibus ignotis insultavêre carinæ;_ “and keels which had long stood on high mountains careered insultingly (_insultavêre_) over unknown waves.” (Ovid, Met.

Quoniam vero regionum urbiumq; limites arduis plerumq; montibus, altis fluminibus, longis deniq; flexuosisq; angustissimarum viarum anfractibus includebantur, fieri potest id genus limites ban did ab eo quod [word in Greek] & [word in Greek] Tarentinis olim, sicuti tradit Hesychius, vocabantur [words in Greek], "obliquae ac minime in rectum tendentes viae." Ac fortasse quoque huc facit quod [word in Greek], eodem Hesychio teste, dicebant [words in greek] montes arduos.

Not a sound was to be heard but the groans of the wrestlers and the singing of the nightingales in the grove of the Altis.

When the young noblemen who belonged to the school of Timagetes filed past him, he took such delight in the beauty of their heads, the wonderful symmetry of their limbs strengthened by athletic games, and the supple grace of most of them, that he felt as if some magic spell had carried him back to the golden age of Greece and the days of the Olympian games in the Altis.

These things rightly considered, Maltravers, you will have every inducement that can tempt a lofty mind and a pure ambition to awaken from the voluptuous indolence of the literary Sybarite, and contend worthily in the world's wide Altis for a great prize." Maltravers never before felt so flattered--so stirred into high resolves.