Crossword-Solution: COLOPHON
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Colophon | n. | An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “COLOPHON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Publisher's imprint | 1 answer |
| Publisher's distinguishing mark | 1 answer |
| Inscription at the end of a book | 1 answer |
| INSCRIPTION at end of book | 1 answer |
| BOOK inscription | 1 answer |
| A PUBLISHER'S EMBLEM PRINTED IN A BOOK | 11 answers |
| IONIAN city/town, ancient | 13 answers |
| WESTERN Asia Minor city/coastal city (hist.) | 13 answers |
| IONIAN coastal city | 13 answers |
| ASIA Minor coastal city (hist.) | 13 answers |
| ANCIENT Asia Minor (coastal) city | 13 answers |
| Imprint | 21 answers |
| ASIA Minor, ancient city/town of | 21 answers |
| BACK end | 23 answers |
| inscription | 24 answers |
| ANCIENT city/town | 49 answers |
| Emblem | 57 answers |
| appendage | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COLOPHON (5)
This man she married—for the oracle also contained the command that she should marry whomsoever she might meet—and coming to Colophon, was there much cast down and wept over the destruction of her country.
The king thus parted, past Icaria's rocks Pompeius' vessel skirts the foamy crags Of little Samos: Colophon's tranquil sea And Ephesus lay behind him, and the air Breathed freely on him from the Coan shore.
Some of his finest passages have been appropriated and improved upon by Virgil by the divine right of superior genius.[4] The subject of love had been treated in the romantic spirit before the time of Apollonius in writings that have perished, for instance, in those of Antimachus of Colophon, but the _Argonautica_ is perhaps the first poem still extant in which the expression of this spirit is developed with elaboration.
When a manuscript was fully written the scribe wrote his colophon or “explicit,” a short form of the phrase “explicitus est liber.” Sometimes the scribe plays upon words, thus: “Explicit iste liber; sit scriptor crimine liber”; or he exultantly praises: “Deo gratias.
This was Xenophanes, who was born at Colophon probably about the year 580 B.C., and who, after a life of wandering, settled finally in Italy and became the founder of the so-called Eleatic School.
Quotes with COLOPHON (1)
Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning... No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must contain could strike a discordant note, be less than fully imagined, an entire novel's worth of thought would have to be expended on each one. His attention had only to lapse for a moment, between preposition and object, colophon and chapter heading, for dead spots to appear like gangrene that would rot the whole. Silkworms didn't work as finely or as patiently as…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1974–1983).