Crossword-Solution: MAXILLAE 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

The cynical humour with which it pleased him to mark the steady advance of autocracy, the _lentae maxillae_ which Augustus attributed to his adopted son,[3] the icy and ironic cruelty which was--on the most favourable estimate--a not inconsiderable element in his character, no doubt all exercised a chilling influence, not only on politics but on all spontaneous expression of human character.

The proboscis is made up of the pair of jaw-appendages in front of the labium, the _maxillae_, as they are called.

Head of a typical Moth, showing proboscis formed by flexible maxillae (_g_) between the labial palps (_p_); _c_, face; _e_, eye; the structure _m_ has been regarded as the vestige of a mandible.

These all have an elongated, grooved labium projecting from the head in form of a beak, within which work, to and fro, the slender needle-like mandibles and maxillae by means of which the insect pierces holes through the skin of a leaf or an animal, and is thus enabled to suck a meal of sap or blood, according to its mode of life.

When however the last larval cuticle has split open lengthwise along the back, and has been worked off by vigorous wriggling motions of the insect, the pupa thus revealed shows the wing-rudiments conspicuous at the sides of the body, and lying neatly alongside these are to be seen the forms of feelers, legs, and maxillae of the imago prefigured in the cuticle of the pupa (fig.