Crossword-Solution: APTOS 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Far and wide the people came: Some from the healthful Aptos Creek Hastened to bring their helpless sick; Even the fishers of rude Soquel Suddenly found they were far from well; The brawny dwellers of San Lorenzo Said, in fact, they had never been so; And all were ailing,--strange to say,-- From Pescadero to Monterey.

The tree under which their meeting has been concerted, and which witnesses their tragedy, is supposed ever afterwards to express the divine sympathy with this catastrophe in the gloomy color of its fruit:-- 'At tu, quæ ramis (arbor!) miserabile corpus Nunc tegis unius, mox es tectura duorum, Signa tene cædis:--pullosque et luctibus aptos Semper habe fructus--gemini monumenta cruoris:' Such is the dying adjuration of the lady to the tree.

Far and wide the people came: Some from the healthful Aptos creek Hastened to bring their helpless sick; Even the fishers of rude Soquel Suddenly found they were far from well; The brawny dwellers of San Lorenzo Said, in fact, they had never been so: And all were-ailing,--strange to say,-- From Pescadero to Monterey.

Saepe pater dixit, "studium quid inutile temptas? Maeonides nullas ipse reliquit opes." Motus eram dictis totoque Helicone relicto scribere conabar verba soluta modis: sponte sua carmen numeros veniebat ad aptos; quicquid temptabam dicere, versus erat.' In due time he assumed the _toga virilis_, and with it the broad purple stripe worn by prospective senators.

Quis tibi monstrabat saltus venatibus aptos Et tegeret catulos qua fera rupe suos? Retia saepe comes maculis distincta tetendi; Saepi cites egi per iuga longa canes.