Crossword-Solution: AMNIS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Vidimus flavum Tiberim retortis Littore Etrusco violenter undis, Ire dejectum monumenta regis, Templaque Vestae: Iliae dum se nimium querenti, Jactat ultorem; vagus et sinistra Labitur ripa, Jove non probante Uxorius Amnis.

The Latin is: "Oppidum ad Salaminium amnis latus recentibus ac sumptuosioribus aedificiis attollebatur; antiquius et ipsa vetustate in cultius quod in Paphiis finibus exstructum erat." The English version is: "The town on Salaminia side was better built than that in Paphia." Surely there is in the Latin the particularity which we might expect from a person who had known Athlone before the war.

Fumidus atque alte spumis exuberat amnis, Nec jam se capit unda; volat vapor ater ad auras;" ["When with loud crackling noise, a fire of sticks is applied to the boiling caldron's side, by the heat in frisky bells the liquor dances; within the water rages, and high the smoky fluid in foam overflows.

Fumidus atque alte spumis exuberat amnis, Nec jam se capit unda; volat vapor ater ad auras;” [“When with loud crackling noise, a fire of sticks is applied to the boiling caldron’s side, by the heat in frisky bells the liquor dances; within the water rages, and high the smoky fluid in foam overflows.

This Merrimack was neither _rivus_ nor _fluvius_ nor _lacus_, but rather _amnis_ here, a gently swelling and stately rolling flood approaching the sea.