Crossword-Solution: PAIAN 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Thou from before the swift four-wheeler Didst pluck me, and didst thrust aside A strongly built provision-dealer Who menaced me with blows, and cried 'Come on! come on!' O Paian, Healer, Then but for thee I must have died, Beloved Peeler! The following presentiment, though he was no 'waster,' may very well have been his own.

The word [Greek: paian], Paean, resembles [Greek: paiein], to strike; hence the word, as recalling the blows and wounds of the war, seems of ill omen to Trygaeus.

Glaucon came last, and won his victory with a dexterous grace that made all but the hottest Laconian swell the “_Io! paian!_” of applause.

From city to city spread the tidings that Perseus was come, who had slain the Gorgon, and the youths and maidens sang "Io Paian," as they led the conqueror to the halls of Akrisios.

The shouts of "Io Paian" reached the ear of Akrisios, as he sat in his lonely hall, marveling at the strange things which must have happened to waken the sounds of joy and triumph; for, since the day when Danae was cast forth with her babe on the raging waters, the glory of war had departed from Argos, and it seemed as though all the chieftains had lost their ancient strength and courage.