Crossword-Solution: EGERIAN
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Hint 1 meaning
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour
water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the
waters; to pour out sand or dust.
Hint 2 anagram
PURO
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Sentences with EGERIAN (5)
Sebastian, (see Nolli’s plan.) That memorable spot has been consecrated by the Egerian grove, the memory of Numa two umphal arches, the sepulchres of the Scipios, Metelli, &c.] 93 (return) [ The expression of Procopius has an invidious cast, (Goth.
The shrill scream of the railway whistle outside the gate, and the smell of the gas-works near at hand--these veritable things of the present century--are fatal to all enchantments, and effectually dissipate the spell of the muses and the mystic fragrance of the Egerian solitude.
The respectable authority of Flaminius Vacca would incline us to believe in the claims of the Egerian grotto.[654] He assures us that he saw an inscription in the pavement, stating that the fountain was that of Egeria, dedicated to the nymphs.
There can be little doubt that this long dell is the Egerian valley of Juvenal, and the pausing place of Umbritius, notwithstanding the generality of his commentators have supposed the descent of the satirist and his friend to have been into the Arician grove, where the nymph met Hippolitus, and where she was more peculiarly worshipped.
Our English Juvenal was not seduced into mistranslation by his acquaintance with Pope: he carefully preserves the correct plural-- "Thence slowly winding down the vale we view The Egerian _grots_: oh, how unlike the true!" The valley abounds with springs,[661] and over these springs, which the Muses might haunt from their neighbouring groves, Egeria presided: hence she was said to supply them with water; and she was the nymph of the grottos through which the fountains were taught to flow.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1947).