Crossword-Solution: PERO 4 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

From Argos came Talaus and Areius, sons of Bias, and mighty Leodocus, all of whom Pero daughter of Neleus bare; on her account the Aeolid Melampus endured sore affliction in the steading of Iphiclus.

When it was what seemed to him the proper time he entered the village and went to Don Quixote’s house, which he found all in confusion, and there were the curate and the village barber, who were great friends of Don Quixote, and his housekeeper was saying to them in a loud voice, “What does your worship think can have befallen my master, Señor Licentiate Pero Perez?” for so the curate was called; “it is three days now since anything has been seen of him, or the hack, or the buckler, lance, or armour.

She bore Nestor, Chromius, and Periclymenus, and she also bore that marvellously lovely woman Pero, who was wooed by all the country round; but Neleus would only give her to him who should raid the cattle of Iphicles from the grazing grounds of Phylace, and this was a hard task.

The count was addressing the company, under the last poster threatening him with death, two very energetic lines were inscribed by the person who put up the poster, knowing that he was at the same time running his head into the noose: Si me cogen, me horqueran, Pero no me cogeran.

Neleus his treasures one long year detains, As long he groan’d in Philacus’s chains: Meantime, what anguish and what rage combined For lovely Pero rack’d his labouring mind! Yet ’scaped he death; and vengeful of his wrong To Pylos drove the lowing herds along: Then (Neleus vanquish’d, and consign’d the fair To Bias’ arms) he so sought a foreign air; Argos the rich for his retreat he chose, There form’d his empire; there his palace rose.