Crossword-Solution: BIQUE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Homer described the aged Pylian king as performing religious rites;[63] and Virgil tells of the monarch of Delos, who was both priest and king:— ‘Rex Anius, rex idem, hominum Phœbique sacerdos.’[64] “Among the Creeks and other Southern Indians, a monarchical form of government seems to prevail; among the Northern Indians, a republican.

Another remarkable circumstance, is the identity of church and state, well indicated by Virgil, in that line-- Rex Anius, rex idem hominum Phœbique sacerdos.

There were realistic studies of human vice that seemed like pages of Zola done into verse, and there were extraordinary attempts (of which Stefan Zweig speaks approvingly) to “chisel a new face of God.” But since his retirement to his little cottage at Caillou-qui-Bique, he has written poems that are for the most part exaltations of pure love, as lofty in thought as they are finished in composition.