Crossword-Solution: STELLIO
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STELLIO | anagram | ELLIOTS, LESTOIL |
We have 1 clue for the answer “STELLIO”
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| denoting type of lizard | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in
some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue
of Hercules, or of a lion.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAUTS
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Sentences with STELLIO (5)
Well, in Latin it is called 'stellio,' from _stella_, a star; just as the basilisk had in Greek this name of 'little king' because of the shape as of a _kingly_ crown which the spots on its head might be made by the fancy to assume.
The most common kind (_Stellio vulgaris_) does not exceed a foot in length, and is of an olive color, shaded with black.
Memphio and Stellio, the fathers respectively of son Accius and daughter Silena, separately and craftily resolve to bring about by fraud the wedding of these two young people, for the reason that each knows his child to be weak-minded, and, believing his neighbour's child to be sound-witted and of good heritage, perceives that only deceit can accomplish the union.
The trick being discovered, there is general trouble, especially at the exposure of the hitherto concealed imbecility of Accius and Silena; but a certain woman, Vicina, now comes forward, with her two children, Maestius and Serena, to explain that the imbeciles are really her own offspring and that the son and daughter of Memphio and Stellio are Maestius and Serena.
Ceres goes everywhere in search of her daughter, and, in her journey, turns the boy Stellio into a newt.