Crossword-Solution: COMAE 5 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Hubbard also (“Silliman’s Journal” volume 34 page 119), has described an interlacement of trap-veins in the granite of the White Mountains, which he thinks must have been formed when both rocks were soft.) On both sides of one of these dikes, the gneiss was penetrated, to the distance of several yards, by numerous, curvilinear threads or streaks of dark matter, which resembled in form clouds of the class called cirrhi- comae; some few of these threads could be traced to their junction with the dike.

Their word for the outlying hamlets, they say, is comae, whereas Athenians call them demes--thus assuming that comedians got the name not from their _comoe_ or revels, but from their strolling from hamlet to hamlet, lack of appreciation keeping them out of the city.

Quem tu, Melpomene, semel Nascentem placido lumine videris, Illum non labor Isthmius Clarabit pugilem, non equus impiger Curru ducet Achaico Victorem, neque res bellica Deliis Ornatmn foliis ducem, Quod regum tumidas contuderit minas, Ostendet Capitolio; Sed quae Tibur aquae fertile praefluunt, 10 Et spissae nemorum comae Fingent Aeolio carmine nobilem.

Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis Arboribusque comae; Mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas Flumina praetereunt; Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet 5 Ducere nuda choros.

Quid facient crines, cum ferro talia cedant? Iuppiter, ut Chalybon omne genus pereat, Et qui principio sub terra quaerere venas Institit ac ferri frangere duritiem! 50 Abiunctae paulo ante comae mea fata sorores Lugebant, cum se Memnonis Aethiopis Vnigena inpellens nictantibus aera pennis Obtulit Arsinoes Locridos ales equos, Isque per aetherias me tollens avolat umbras 55 Et Veneris casto collocat in gremio.