Crossword-Solution: ADIGE 5 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

LIX Sophia by Adige’s flowery bank him bore, Sophia the fair, spouse to Bertoldo great, Fit mother for that pearl, and before The tender imp was weaned from the teat, The Princess Maud him took, in Virtue’s lore She brought him up fit for each worthy feat, Till of these wares the golden trump he hears, That soundeth glory, fame, praise in his ears.

All the bridges were of course guarded, and he had two at least within the enemy’s lines to get over—those of the Mincio and of the Adige.

The Adige he described as beset with a two-fold risk—the avoidance of the bridges, which courted suspicion, and the thin ice and only partially frozen river, which had to be traversed in the dark.

Venice was yet unborn; but the territories of that state, which lie to the east of the Adige, were inhabited by the Venetians.

With her daughter, the heiress of the Lombard throne, her two lovers, her trusty Gepidae, and the spoils of the palace of Verona, Rosamond descended the Adige and the Po, and was transported by a Greek vessel to the safe harbor of Ravenna.