Crossword-Solution: SELEUCIA
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| BABYLONIAN capital | 2 answers |
| MESOPOTAMIAN city, ancient | 4 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
TAGEA
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SELEUCIA (5)
LXXXVII Seleucia's lord, of those companions one, Combined in that emprize to keep the place, Who then a course with bold Ombruno run, Wounded the unhappy warrior in mid-face, So that he slew him; mourned by every one, Who as a worthy knight the warrior grace, And over and above his worth, before All others, hold him for his courteous lore.
CII He of Seleucia at Sir Gryphon's casque, At the same time, so fell a blow addrest, It would have rent and torn the iron mask, Had it not been enchanted like the rest.
CIII Each one might see how much Seleucia's lord Was overmatched by Gryphon, and that day, The worsted men had perished by the sword, Had not the monarch quickly stopt the fray.
Among their exploits, the imperfect relation of which would have unseasonably interrupted the more important series of domestic revolutions, we shall only mention the repeated calamities of the two great cities of Seleucia and Ctesiphon.
The sack and conflagration of Seleucia, with the massacre of three hundred thousand of the inhabitants, tarnished the glory of the Roman triumph.