Crossword-Solution: POPPAEA
We have 2 clues for the answer “POPPAEA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Wife of Otho and Nero | 1 answer |
| Nero's wife | 2 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEGA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with POPPAEA (5)
Nero's mistress and unhappy wife, Poppaea, of shameful memory, had in her travelling retinue fifteen--or, as some say, fifty--she-asses, for the sake of their milk, that was thought an incomparable guard against cosmetics with poison in them.
Even Otho did not lose all his rights; Nero exiled him with a commission of honor, "because he was caught in adultery with his own wife, Poppaea." "Uxoris moechus coeperate esse suae" (Suet.
Even Otho did not lose all his rights; Nero exiled him with a commission of honor, “because he was caught in adultery with his own wife, Poppaea.” “Uxoris moechus coeperate esse suae” (Suet.
Lee; Poppaea, Bertha Pierson; Epicharis, Cornelia van Santen; Chrysa, Emma Juch; Agrippina, Emily Sterling; Lupus, Pauline L'Allemand.
Under pretence of her being engaged in a plot against him, he put to death Antonia, Claudius's daughter, who refused to marry him after the death of Poppaea.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1983).