Crossword-Solution: SICULIAN
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| SICILIAN, ancient (It.) | 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
EAGTA
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SICULIAN (5)
Now in Sicily these shepherds were not of Greek extraction, but were undoubtedly of the aboriginal Siculian population, the ancient worshippers of the goddess Pales;(1623) and it is not improbable that the bucolic poetry owed its origin to native talent.
How far, in the manner in which he accomplished this, Theocritus had been anticipated by ‘the grave muse of Stesichorus,’ and whether this wild product of the mountains was of a native Siculian or an Hellenic stock, it is not possible to determine.
SICULIAN, si-k[=u]'li-an, _adj._ pertaining to the _Siculi_, an ancient and most probably Aryan race of southern Italy who colonised Sicily.--_adjs._ SIC'ULO-AR[=A]'BIAN; SIC'ULO-P[=U]'NIC.
Notwithstanding the wide spread of these Siculian or Italian names, _Italia_ in the earliest times does not seem as at present to have designated the country to the foot of the Alps.
Others called the different places which were formerly termed Siculian, Argive; and Cato had done that with regard to Tibur itself.