Crossword-Solution: THEOPHANE 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Thou, seeming to be Enipeus,[21] didst beget the Aloïdæ; as a ram, thou didst delude {Theophane}, the daughter of Bisaltis.[22] Thee too the most bounteous mother of corn, with her yellow hair, experienced[23] as a steed; thee, the mother[24] of the winged horse, with her snaky locks, received as a bird; Melantho,[25] as a dolphin.

All the columns around the court are Byzantine, and one of them bears the inscription: the (column) of, Theophane--[Greek: hê tês Theôphanês] (Fig.

Sophia and its beauties, and some legends that attach to it--The present state of its courts--The Sea of Marmora and an historical pageant: Genoese, Venetians, Khairreddin Barbarossa and his victories--The story of stout Sir Thomas Bentinck--The Palace of Justinian and its story: Theophane and her husbands--The Mosque of Achmet--At-meïdan, the former Hippodrome, and its story--Justin, Justinian and Theodora, and the Blues and Greens--Justinian II and his doings--Some reflections on modern history.

Theophane tired of her spouse and killed him by poison, and was minded to reign in the name of her two sons Basil and Constantine, one five, the other three years old.

But soon after Theophane had disposed of her first husband, and her second, Nicephorus, had ascended the throne, the fickle population turned from him and gave evidence of their discontent by stoning him.