Crossword-Solution: RAVA 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Rava notes, in the numerous letters he wrote Casanova, and which were preserved at Dux, he proclaims his friendship and admiration.

Now there were no pines about him, but strange shining trees made of the Seven Precious Substances, with foliage and fruit of gems;—and the ground was covered with Mandârava and Manjûshaka flowers showered from heaven;—and the night was filled with fragrance and splendour and the sweetness of the great Voice.

Impios parrae recinentis omen Ducat et praegnans canis aut ab agro Rava decurrens lupa Lanuvino Fetaque volpes; Rumpat et serpens iter institutum, 5 Si per obliquum similis sagittae Terruit mannos: ego cui timebo, Providus auspex, Antequam stantis repetat paludes Imbrium divina avis imminentum, 10 Oscinem corvum prece suscitabo Solis ab ortu.

Pururavas meant the same as [Greek], 'endowed with much light,' for, though rava is generally used of sound, yet the root ru, which means originally 'to cry,' is also applied to colour, in the sense of a loud or crying colour, that is, red.

Indeed, by the end of the first week in December, General Dmitrieff had cavalry in the suburbs of Cracow, and his main force was on the line of the River Rava about twelve miles away.