Crossword-Solution: CTESIAS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CTESIAS | anagram | ASCITES |
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| Greek historian. | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEEMAC
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eruption
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Sentences with CTESIAS (5)
The story of the seven Persians is told in the third book of Herodotus; and their noble descendants are often mentioned, especially in the fragments of Ctesias.
Tradition ascribed it, as we learn from Ctesias, through Diodorus, to the fabled Assyrian queen Semiramis.
The learned John Beckmann (History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins: sub voce) derives falconry from India, where, as early as the time of Ctesias, hares and foxes were hunted by means of rapacious birds. I believe, however, that no trace of this sport is found in the writings of the Hindus.
Thirlwall, in my judgment, very properly contents himself with recording the ultimate destination of Croesus as we find it in Ctesias, to the rejection of the beautiful romance of Herodotus.
Ctesias says there were more than one thousand.]; that of the Greeks, as we have seen, three hundred and eighty.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1946).