Crossword-Solution: MEMNON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Memnon | n. | A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MEMNON | anagram | MNEMON |
We have 7 clues for the answer “MEMNON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ANTILOCHUS, slayer of | 1 answer |
| BARSINE, husband of | 1 answer |
| Ethiopian king slain by Achilles | 1 answer |
| Famous Egyptian statue | 1 answer |
| King slain by Achilles | 1 answer |
| Achilles slain by | 10 answers |
| victim of Achilles | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MEMNON (5)
Croiset remark, the abusive Thersites in the _Aethiopis_ is clearly copied from the Thersites of the _Iliad_; in the same poem Antilochus, slain by Memnon and avenged by Achilles, is obviously modelled on Patroclus.
But, hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that starred Ethiop queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The Sea-Nymphs, and their powers offended.
There are fences and pigs and cows, and the soft-voiced, velvet-skinned young Memnon, who sauntered half-bashfully over to greet the strangers, is proud of his home.
This is another day; and its young strength Is laid upon the quivering hills until, Like Egypt's Memnon, they grow quick with song.
Maybe I understood because I saw her in that early hour of the morning when even the stony Memnon sings, in that mystical light of the young day when divine exiled things, condemned to rough bondage through the noon, are for a short magical hour their own celestial selves, their unearthly glory as yet unhidden by any earthly disguise.
Quotes with MEMNON (1)
The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes that slumbers all the rest of the day and night. Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within.... After a partial cessa…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, Herald Tribune, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1943–2012).