Crossword-Solution: MEGARA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MEGARA | anagram | AMAGER, GAMERA, GEMARA, RAMAGE |
We have 6 clues for the answer “MEGARA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient city near Athens. | 1 answer |
| Seaport west of Athens. | 1 answer |
| HERCULES, wife of | 3 answers |
| HERACLES, wife of | 3 answers |
| HERACLES, victim of | 6 answers |
| HERCULES, victim of | 7 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
EGATA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with MEGARA (5)
Now having entrenched himself, he did cast up four mounts against the town: the first he called Mount Diabolus, putting his own name thereon, the more to affright the town of Mansoul; the other three he called thus—Mount Alecto, Mount Megara, and Mount Tisiphone; for these are the names of the dreadful furies of hell.
For the Athenians, hating the people of Megara, decreed that if any of the Megarensians entered Athens, he should be put to death.
Then Euclid, who was a Megarensian, and had attended the lectures of Socrates before this decree, disguising himself in a woman's dress, used to go from Megara to Athens by night to hear Socrates, a distance of twenty miles and back.
Then he went over the hills toward Megara, keeping close along the Saronic Sea, till he came to the cliffs of Sciron, and the narrow path between the mountain and the sea.
The distance between Megara and Corinth could not much exceed thirty miles; but the bad road, an expressive name, which it still bears among the Greeks, was, or might easily have been made, impassable for the march of an enemy.
Quotes with MEGARA (2)
.... I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia — by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.(tr Jowett)
Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet air, he says. Your 'honour' is all shame and timidity and compliance. Pure of stain! But the artist is the secret criminal in our midst. He is the agent of progress against authority. you are right to be a scholar. A scholar is all scruple, an artist is none. The artist must lie, cheat, deceive, be untrue to nature and contempt…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1953–1960).