Crossword-Solution: REGES 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

But the epic muse exacted from Kinglake, as from Virgil long before, the portrayal not only of generals and of battles, but of two great monarchs, each in his own day conspicuously and absolutely prominent—the Czar Nicholas and the Emperor Napoleon: “dicam horrida belia, Dicam acies, actosque animis in funera REGES.” His handling of them is characteristic.

Why, I’ll show the reason: This is no age for poets; they should sing To the loud canon heroica facta; Qui faciunt reges heroica carmina laudant: And, as great subjects of their pen decay, Even so unphysicked they do melt away.

The crine profuso and barba demissa of the reges crinitos, as the Merovingians were called, are often referred to by ancient chroniclers.

Francisco, Merci, the ranches of Eau Cheri, Eau de la Lune, and others; on the Santa Cruz the missions of San Xavier del Bac, Santiago, San Cayetano, and San Philipe, the towns of Tueson, Tubac, Reges, San Augusta, and many others.

Astiterunt reges terrae: so the Gradual, the “Song of Degrees,” proceeded, the young men on the steps of the altar responding in deep, clear, antiphon or chorus— Astiterunt reges terrae— Adversus sanctum puerum tuum, Jesum: Nunc, Domine, da servis tuis loqui verbum tuum— Et signa fieri, per nomen sancti pueri Jesu.