Crossword-Solution: CARMINA 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Barbara et antiquissima carmina, quibus veterum regum actus et bella canebantur scripsit memoriaeque mandavit, (Eginard, in Vit.

Matres correptae in conspectu filiarum multipliciter repetitis diversorum coitibus vexabantur; (is that the true reading?) cum filiae assistentes carmina praecinere saltando cogerentur.

Hence arise those poets whom they call Bards, of whom you will find many in this nation, endowed with the above faculty, according to the poet’s observation: “Plurima concreti fuderunt carmina Bardi.” But they make use of alliteration (_anominatione_) in preference to all other ornaments of rhetoric, and that particular kind which joins by consonancy the first letters or syllables of words.

Yet fight on, my gallant kinsmen, “Felices facti si quid mea carmina possuit.” Gerald was satisfied, not only with his birthplace and lineage, but with everything that was his.

Why, I’ll show the reason: This is no age for poets; they should sing To the loud canon heroica facta; Qui faciunt reges heroica carmina laudant: And, as great subjects of their pen decay, Even so unphysicked they do melt away.