Crossword-Solution: HELIC 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

David’s, to Ryd-helic, {155d} which in Latin means _Vadum salicis_, or the Ford of the Willow, and in English is called Willow-forde, is four days’ journey.

For there came hither, in his wayfaring out of Argos, a certain young Achaean, from Helicé, by the seashore, who verily told a tale and that among many Epeians here,—how, even in his presence, a certain Argive slew a wild beast, a lion dread, a curse of evil omen to the country folk.

But come now, hero, tell thou me first, that truly I may know, whether my foreboding be right or wrong,—if thou art that man of whom the Achaean from Helicé spake in our hearing, and if I read thee aright.

The proud Mycenè arms her martial powers, Cleonè, Corinth, with imperial towers,[103] Fair Aræthyrea, Ornia’s fruitful plain, And Ægion, and Adrastus’ ancient reign; And those who dwell along the sandy shore, And where Pellenè yields her fleecy store, Where Helicè and Hyperesia lie, And Gonoëssa’s spires salute the sky.

The following remark made by Seneca concerning it shows that the ancients did not consider comets merely as precursors, but even as actual _causes_ of fatal events: "This comet, so anxiously observed by every one, _because of the great catastrophe which it produced as soon as it appeared_, the submersion of Bura and Helicè." Comets are by no means rare visitors to our skies, and very few years have elapsed in historical times without such objects making their appearance.