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

Avienus, after speaking of the "Insulae OEstrimnides," which Heeren thinks must be the Scilly Islands, goes on to say: "Ast hinc duobus in Sacram (sic insulam Dixere prisci) solibus cursus rati est.

Those who had little means or none lived as parasites of more fortunate relatives; though beggars, they housed in palaces--palaces, it is true, which had often no more comfort within their marble walls than the insulae where the ignoble laid their heads.

Patrick's Purgatory given by Luis Enius in this long narrative is taken immediately from the seventh, eighth, and ninth chapters of Montalvan's "Vida y Purgatorio de San Patricio", which, as already stated, are themselves a translation from the "Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum" of Messingham.

Ferdinand of Spain being now a much more powerful king than John of Portugal, the Pope granted all that Spain asked, but was careful not to admit that Columbus had discovered the real India; for the bull refers only to "insulae et terra firma remota et incognita" or "islands and a remote and unknown mainland." Meanwhile, all sorts of intrigues were going on between the two monarchs.

There is indeed an air of the marvellous in the recital of d'Anghiera, which begins in these words: Non aliter ac nos canibus gallicis per aequora campi lepores insectamur, incolae [Cubae insulae] venatorio pisce pisces alios capiebant.