Crossword-Solution: CAPIS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

STEM capt- ACTIVE PASSIVE INDICATIVE PRESENT capiō capimus ca´pior ca´pimur capis capitis ca´peris, -re capi´minī capit capiunt ca´pitur capiun´tur IMPERFECT capiēbam capiebamus capiē´bar capiēbā´mur capiēbas capiēbātis capiēba´ris, -re capiēbā´minī capiēbat capiēbant capiēbā´tur capieban´tur FUTURE capiam capiēmus ca´piar capiē´mur capiēs capiētis capiē´ris, -re capiē´minī capiet capient capiē´tur capien´tur PERFECT cēpī, cēpistī, cēpit, etc.

The knife should be without teeth or indentations, but nearly everywhere in Capis Province I have seen it with a slightly serrated edge.

Nero himself, as became a prince, outdid all by giving 100 talents for a single capis, or drinking-cup, "a memorable circumstance, that an emperor, and father of his country, should have drunk at so dear a rate." Pliny's description of this substance runs thus: "It is to be noticed that we have these rich cassidoin vessels (called in Latin murrhina) from the East, and that from places otherwise not greatly renowned, but most within the kingdom of Parthia; howbeit the principal come from Carmania.

Domini 1246, Romæ multi Anglicani aderant Clerici, qui capis vt aiu{n}t chorealibus, et infulis, ornamentisq{ue} ecclesiasticis, ex Anglice tunc more gentis, ex lana tenuissima et auro artificiosè intexto fabricatis, vterentur.

Hic juvenis succensus amor, formamque secutus Et facilem cantum, quo capis ipsa deos, Tecum inter salices, sub amicta vitibus ulmo, In molli junxit candida membra toro; Inter et amplexus lassi jacuistis uterque, Et repetita venus dulce peregit opus.