Crossword-Solution: ANTICHTHON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Antichthon | n. | A hypothetical earth counter to ours, or on the opposite side of the sun. |
| Antichthon | n. | Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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This is very probable, says Mela, with delightful _naÔvetÈ_, because Taprobane is inhabited, and still we do not know of anybody who has ever made the tour of it.[364] Mela's contemporary, the elder Pliny, declares that Taprobane "has long been regarded" as part of another world, the name of which is Antichthon, or Opposite-Earth;[365] at the same time Pliny vouchsafes three closely-printed pages of information about this mysterious country.
The Pythagoreans, on the other hand, attributed perfection to the number ten; but agreed in thinking that the perfect number must be somehow realized in the heavens; and knowing only of nine heavenly bodies, to make up the enumeration, they asserted “that there was an _antichthon_, or counter-earth, on the other side of the sun, invisible to us.”(260) Even Huygens was persuaded that when the number of the heavenly bodies had reached twelve, it could not admit of any further increase.
Now Nemea is called the daughter of the moon,(1816) from which deity the Nemean lion is also said to have sprung; the antiquity of which fable may be inferred from the circumstance that Anaxagoras availed himself of it, as being generally received, to account for the physical hypothesis of the Antichthon.(1817) Connected with this is Hesiod’s tradition that the goddess Here had herself brought up the lion, which she is by that poet represented as having done out of enmity to Hercules.
The Pythagoreans, on the other hand, attributed perfection to the number ten; but agreed in thinking that the perfect number must be somehow realized in the heavens; and knowing only of nine heavenly bodies, to make up the enumeration, they asserted "that there was an _antichthon_ or counter-earth, on the other side of the sun, invisible to us."[31] Even Huygens was persuaded that when the number of the heavenly bodies had reached twelve, it could not admit of any further increase.
ANTICHTHON (Gr.), a counter-earth, placed by Pythagoreans on the opposite side of the sun--its inhabitants the ANTICHTHONES, hence antipodeans generally.