Crossword-Solution: CLYPEI 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Let the shade of blind Homer be called up to say whether the bard who composed the tremendous line— “Surgit ad hos clypei dominus septemplicis Ajax”— equal to any save _one_ of his own, was a mere amatory songster.

Half a dozen poor artists on the one side, and his Majesty Louis Philippe, his august family, and the numberless placemen and supporters of the monarchy, on the other; it was something like Thersites girding at Ajax, and piercing through the folds of the clypei septemplicis with the poisonous shafts of his scorn.

Sic cum de agri istius possessione acriter olim dimicatum esset, inter fundi dominum et villarum incolas, nec valerent hi adversus eum consistere, redeuntibus occurrit Hickifrickus, _axemque excutiens a curru quem agebat, eo vice gladii usus_; _rota, clypei_; invasores repulit ad ipsos quibus nunc funguntur terminos.

Half a dozen poor artists on the one side, and his Majesty Louis Philippe, his august family, and the numberless placemen and supporters of the monarchy, on the other; it was something like Thersites girding at Ajax, and piercing through the folds of the _clypei septemplicis_ with the poisonous shifts of his scorn.

Obsequens describes a meteor as “orbis clypei similis,” which was seen to pass from west to east, cap.