Crossword-Solution: LUPA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LUPA | anagram | PAUL, PLAU, PLUA, PULA |
We have 1 clue for the answer “LUPA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| She-wolf: Lat. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LUPA (5)
Mention is even made of one benevolent lady (Mita Lupa) who had expended her whole fortune on this object.
Servius, however, in his commentary on Virgil, has assigned a much more improper and filthy reason for the name; he alludes to the manner in which the wolf who mothered Rotnulus and Reinus licked their bodies with her tongue, and this hint is sufficient to confirm him in his belief that the lupa; were not less skilled in lingual gymnastics.
The she-wolf that nurtured the twins was elevated into a divinity with the name Lupa, or Luperca (_lupus_, a wolf), and was made the wife of a god who was called Lupercus, and worshipped as the protector of sheep against their enemies, and as the god of fertility.
Impios parrae recinentis omen Ducat et praegnans canis aut ab agro Rava decurrens lupa Lanuvino Fetaque volpes; Rumpat et serpens iter institutum, 5 Si per obliquum similis sagittae Terruit mannos: ego cui timebo, Providus auspex, Antequam stantis repetat paludes Imbrium divina avis imminentum, 10 Oscinem corvum prece suscitabo Solis ab ortu.
Others, however, assert, that from the vicious life of this woman, the shepherds had given her the nickname of Lupa, or wolf, which they suppose might possibly be the occasion of this marvellous story.
Quotes with LUPA (3)
I sing to you of many more gods, gods of wind and water, gods of each mineral and the events that created them. I sing to you of the gods of protons, of quarks, of atomic forces binding and holding. I sing to you of the god of the dust that flies off the ice-burned comet, and the god of the spaces in between. I sing to you of the god that twists like a serpent at the center of every sun and is found again coiled within every electron, shared by both and worshiped by each in i…
I sing to you of the deities of the Dictyostelidal slime molds, sexless and strange, at once a thousand voices and one song united. I sing to you of hard times when the wood has rotted away and the sun bakes the earth, and while as individuals we die, together we thrive. The divinities ask for sacrifice, the thousand voices demand it. Those who die to give life to the others, who raise up the new generation so that they may spread far and wide — these become a part of that sa…
The wolf Lupa had told him that mortal minds could believe just about anything — except the truth.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).