Crossword-Solution: CANEM 5 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The inscription on the threshold should have been ‘Cave canem.’ We began our day as at Dotheboys Hall with two large spoonfuls of sulphur and treacle.

Africa therefore was the home of the Beast-fable not as Professor Mahaffy thinks, because it was the chosen land of animal worship, where Oppida tote canem venerantur nemo Dianam;[FN#231] but simply because the Nile-land originated every form of literature between Fabliau and Epos.

The perfume is as different as the stale odor of a cigar, from the breath of the honeysuckle that bleached all night under crystal dew, floats in at your window like a message from heaven, I love you dearly, my pretty Portia, hence I wince a trifle at your harsh ascription of cave canem motives in my marriage.

There was a threshold, upon which it was unlucky to place the left foot; a knocker afforded means of announcing one's approach, and a porter, who had a small room at the side, opened the door, showing the caller the words _Cave canem_ (beware of the dog), or _Salve_ (welcome), or perchance the dog himself reached out toward the visitor as far as his chain would allow.

But, _cave canem_! the fault of exaggerating once powerful over you, not only the bounds of the English language are leapt, but truth is unconsciously set at nought.