Crossword-Solution: AMOENA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Lingua procul male prompta loqui, suasorque morarum Sit pudor: alloquiis ut mollior una secundis Pieridum faveat, cui mox ego destiner, urnæ: Et gressus prætergrediens convertat, et “Esto” Dicat “amoena quies atra tibi veste latenti:” Uno namque jugo duo nutribamur: eosdem Pavit uterque greges ad fontem et rivulum et umbram.

Sulla exercitum, quem in Asia ductaverat, quo sibi fidum faceret,[71] contra morem majorum luxuriose nimisque liberaliter habuerat; loca amoena, voluptaria[72] facile in otio feroces militum animos molliverant.

The reader will no doubt welcome a few passages, which he may regard--to use Livy's phrase--as "deverticula amoena" in this account of our subject.

Storms and snows vanished out of our ideal year; and then morning, noon, and night, wherever we breathed, we _felt_, what now we but _know_, the inmost meaning of that profound verse of Virgil the Divine-- "Devenere locos lætos, et amoena vireta Fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatas.

BIRDS OF THE ARID PLAIN [Illustration: PLATE III LAZULI BUNTING--_Cyanospiza amoena_ (Upper figure, male; lower, female)] Having explored the summit of Pike's Peak and part of its southern slope down to the timber-line, and spent several delightful days in the upper valleys of the mountains, as well as in exploring several cañons, the rambler was desirous of knowing what species of birds reside on the plain stretching eastward from the bases of the towering ranges.