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

But happening to find near Clarus a seer greater than himself, Mopsus, the son of Manto, Teiresias’ daughter, he died of vexation.

Thro' Thebes' wide streets Tiresia's daughter came, Divine Latona's mandate to proclaim: The Theban maids to hear the orders ran, When thus Maeonia's prophetess began: "Go, Thebans! great Latona's will obey, "And pious tribute at her altars pay: "With rights divine, the goddess be implor'd, "Nor be her sacred offspring unador'd." Thus Manto spoke.

LXXXVI One was Elizabeth, one Eleanor, And if we credit what that marble said, Manto's so glorious city which such store Sets my melodious Maro, whom she bred, More vaunts not him, nor reverences more, Than these fair dames her poet's honoured head.

LXXIV "In the same city dwelt a cavalier, Numbered that old and honoured race among, Sprung from the haughty lineage, which whilere Out of the jaw-bone of a serpent sprung: Whence Manto, doomed my native walls to rear, Descended, and with her a kindred throng.

CXXVII "He all astound and with bewildered face, And full of shame, to seek his lord returns; Who from the servant that unwonted case, Unweeting how the thing had happened, learns; Nor knows the fairy Manto fills a place About Argia, prompt to serve her turns.