Crossword-Solution: CORONIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Coronis | n. | In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable. |
| Coronis | n. | The curved line or flourish at the end of a book or chapter; hence, the end. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CORONIS | anagram | SONORIC |
We have 1 clue for the answer “CORONIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AESCULAPIUS, mother of | 1 answer |
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On the back of an animal
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ODARSL
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with CORONIS (5)
Hesiod in his Book about Stars tells us their names as follows: ‘Nymphs like the Graces 1401, Phaesyle and Coronis and rich-crowned Cleeia and lovely Phaco and long-robed Eudora, whom the tribes of men upon the earth call Hyades.’ Fragment #3—Pseudo-Eratosthenes Catast.
But the Celts have attached this story to them, that these are the tears of Leto’s son, Apollo, that are borne along by the eddies, the countless tears that he shed aforetime when he came to the sacred race of the Hyperboreans and left shining heaven at the chiding of his father, being in wrath concerning his son whom divine Coronis bare in bright Lacereia at the mouth of Amyrus.
There is a parody by Lucian, which tells of the birth of Apollo, the marriage of Coronis, and the coming of Aesculapius as Savior; there was the dying and rising again of Dionysus (chief divinity of the Orphic cult); and sometimes the mystery of the birth of Dionysus as a holy child.
Our hero now departed homewards, still running, with the new-born Asclepius in his hands--the twice-born, too, whereas ordinary men can be born but once, and born moreover not of Coronis [Footnote: Coronis was the mother of Asclepius; 'corone' is Greek for a crow.] nor even of her namesake the crow, but of a goose! After him streamed the whole people, in all the madness of fanatic hopes.
Est mihi nonum superantis annum Plenus Albani cadus; est in horto, Phylli, nectendis apium coronis; Est hederae vis Multa, qua crinis religata fulges; 5 Ridet argento domus; ara castis Vincta verbenis avet immolato Spargier agno; Cuncta festinat manus, huc et illuc Cursitant mixtae pueris puellae; 10 Sordidum flammae trepidant rotantes Vertice fumum.