Crossword-Solution: ORITHYIA
We have 3 clues for the answer “ORITHYIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BOREAS, wife of | 1 answer |
| CALAIS, mother of | 1 answer |
| ZETES, mother of | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
DAROSL
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with ORITHYIA (5)
But with their cries the Dryad-band her peers Filled up the mountains to their proudest peaks: Wailed for her fate the heights of Rhodope, And tall Pangaea, and, beloved of Mars, The land that bowed to Rhesus, Thrace no less With Hebrus' stream; and Orithyia wept, Daughter of Acte old.
PHAEDRUS: I should like to know, Socrates, whether the place is not somewhere here at which Boreas is said to have carried off Orithyia from the banks of the Ilissus? SOCRATES: Such is the tradition.
Above all, the wanderings of Demeter, the finding of Persephone, the hospitality of Celeus; Triptolemus's plough, Icarius's vineyard, and the sad end of Erigone; the tale of Boreas and Orithyia, of Theseus, and of Aegeus; of Medea in Greece, and of her flight thereafter into Persia, and of Erechtheus's daughters and Pandion's, and all that they did and suffered in Thrace.
Orithyia was the wife of Boreas the North Wind, who according to legend was the father of the royal horses of Troy.
Err we? or do the turnËd hinges sound, And opening doors with creaking noise abound?[158] 50 We err: a strong blast seemed the gates to ope: Ay me, how high that gale did lift my hope! If Boreas bears[159] Orithyia's rape in mind, Come break these deaf doors with thy boisterous wind.