Crossword-Solution: AGLA 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Then one of the company, a brigadier called Aglaïtadas, a somewhat sour-tempered man, turned to him and said: "Cyrus, do you really think the tales they tell are true?" "Certainly," he answered, "why should they say what is false?" "Why," repeated the other, "simply to raise a laugh, and make a brag like the impostors that they are." [12] But Cyrus cut him short, "Hush! hush! You must not use such ugly names.

But your mirth-makers, can you say they benefit the body or edify the soul? Can smiles make a man a better master or a better citizen? Can he learn economy or statesmanship from a grin?" [15] But Hystaspas answered back: "Take my advice, Aglaïtadas, pluck up heart and spend this precious gift of yours on your enemies: make them sit in the seat of the sorrowful, and fling away on us, your friends, that vile and worthless laughter.

And oft he stopped in his triumphant way, And oft looked back, and oft was heard to say, Not without sighs, “Alas! I there forsake A happier kingdom than I go to take.” Thus Aglaüs (a man unknown to men, But the gods knew, and therefore loved him then) Thus lived obscurely then without a name, Aglaüs, now consigned to eternal fame.

For Gyges, the rich king, wicked and great, Presumed at wise Apollo’s Delphic seat, Presumed to ask, “O thou, the whole world’s eye, Seest thou a man that happier is than I?” The god, who scorned to flatter man, replied, “Aglaüs happier is.” But Gyges cried, In a proud rage, “Who can that Aglaüs be? We have heard as yet of no such king as he.” And true it was, through the whole earth around No king of such a name was to be found.

Their number is not determined; Homer reckons only two; others five, namely, Leucosia, Ligeia, Parthenŏpe, Aglaŏphon, and Molpe; others admit only the three first.