Crossword-Solution: ANTIQUA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Wiarda, History and Explanation of the Salic Law, Bremen, 1808, asserts that what is called the Lex Antiqua, or Vetustior in which many German words are mingled with the Latin, has no claim to superior antiquity, and may be suspected to be more modern.

Among the Jews, he says, there was a good reason for prohibiting all graven images, else they would have relapsed into the idolatry or devil-worship of the nations around them: Nunc autem, postquam penitus natura Satanum Cognita, et antiqua sine majestate relicta est, Nulla ferunt nobis statuae discrimina, nullos Fert pictura dolos; jam sunt innoxia signa; Sunt modo virtutum testes monimentaque laudum Marmora, et aeternae decora immortalia famae.

The fossils of the Siwalik Hills formed the subject of Falconer's most important book, "Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis," which, however, remained unfinished at the time of his death.

Milner’s usher to try his hand at criticism; and finally, in April, 1757, Goldsmith was bound over for a year to that venerable lady whom George Primrose dubs ‘the _antiqua mater_ of Grub Street’—in other words, he was engaged for bed, board, and a fixed salary to supply copy-of-all-work to his master’s magazine.

Goldsmith, it is said, complained that the bookseller and his wife treated him ill, and denied him ordinary comforts; added to which the lady, a harder taskmistress even than the _ antiqua mater_ above referred to, joined with her husband in ‘editing’ his articles, a course which, hard though it may seem, is not unprecedented.