Crossword-Solution: COMNENA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The Princess Anna Comnena talks of them as having been as numerous as the sands on the sea-shore, or the stars in the firmament.

Conscious of the just suspicions of her readers, the princess Anna Comnena repeatedly protests, that, besides her personal knowledge, she had searched the discourses and writings of the most respectable veterans: and after an interval of thirty years, forgotten by, and forgetful of, the world, her mournful solitude was inaccessible to hope and fear; and that truth, the naked perfect truth, was more dear and sacred than the memory of her parent.

Anna Comnena was stimulated by ambition and revenge to conspire against the life of her brother, and when the design was prevented by the fears or scruples of her husband, she passionately exclaimed that nature had mistaken the two sexes, and had endowed Bryennius with the soul of a woman.

The frequent labor of illustration attests not only the existence, but the popularity, of the Grecian classics: the general knowledge of the age may be deduced from the example of two learned females, the empress Eudocia, and the princess Anna Comnena, who cultivated, in the purple, the arts of rhetoric and philosophy.

Anna Comnena was born in the purple; yet her father was no more than a private though illustrious subject, who raised himself to the empire.] 39 (return) [ Giannone, (tom.