Crossword-Solution: PONTI 5 letters, 42 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Luxerat illa dies, legis gens docta supernae Spes hominum ac curas cum procul esse jubet, Ponti inter strepitus sacri non munera cultus Cessarunt; pietas hic quoque cura fuit: Quid quod sacrifici versavit femina libros, Legitimas faciunt pectora pura preces.

She throws open the flood-gates of her heart as in words recalling Lucretius: Te, dea, te fugiunt venti, te nubila caeli Adventumque tuum, tibi suavis daedala tellus Summittit floras, tibi rident sequora ponti.

But for fatuity it would be hard to surpass the words with which Amphitryon interrupts Theseus' account of the horrors of the underworld: estne aliqua tellus Cereris aut Bacchi ferax? (_H.F._ 697.) Scarcely less absurd is the chorus in the _Phaedra_, who, when hymning the power of love, give a long list of animals subject to such passion: the catalogue culminates with the statement that even whales and elephants fall in love (351): amat insani belua ponti Lucaeque boves.

Thus we find in _Naevius_, "_Vos_ QUI ACCOLITIS _histrum_ FLUVIUM ATQUE ALGIDUM." And in another place, "_Quam nunquam vobis_ GRAII ATQUE _Barbari_." But _Ennius_ admits it only once, when he says, "_Scipio invicte_;" and likewise I myself in "_Hoc motu radiantis_ ETESIAE IN _Vada Ponti_." This, however, would seldom be suffered among us, though the Greeks often commend it as a beauty.

She is the daughter of one of the leading business families of Milan, sister to the Marchese Ponti, who was for long Sindaco of that great city, and intimately concerned in its stormy industrial history.