Crossword-Solution: DANAI 5 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The Egyptian stranger was elected king by the natives, and from him the tribe of the Danai derived their name, which Homer frequently uses as a general appellation for the Greeks.

Fit via vi; rumpunt aditus primosque trucidant Inmissi Danai, et late loca milite complent._ These quotations indicate strikingly enough the way in which Tacitus is steeped in the Virgilian manner and diction.

Frustra cruento Marte carebimus Fractisque rauci fluctibus Hadriae, Frustra per autumnos nocentem 15 Corporibus metuemus Austrum: Visendus ater flumine languido Cocytos errans et Danai genus Infame damnatusque longi Sisyphus Aeolides laboris.

There were, first, the Tânauna, in whom it is usual to see either the Danai of the Peloponnese, so celebrated in Homer, or the Daunii of south-eastern Italy, who bordered on the Iapyges; secondly, the Tekaru, or Teucrians, a well-known people of the Troad; thirdly, the Uashasha, who are identified with the Oscans or Ausones, neighbours of the Daunians; and fourthly, the Purusata, whom some explain as the Pelasgi, and others as the Philistines.

But on high One--or Apollo, Zeus, or Pan,--the shrill cry hearing, Cry of birds that are his clients, Sendeth forth on men transgressing Erinnys, slow but sure avenger; So against young Alexandros Atreus' sons the Great King sendeth, Zeus, of host and guest protector: {60} He, for bride with many a lover, Will to Danai give and Troïans Many conflicts, men's limbs straining, When the knee in dust is crouching, And the spear-shaft in the onset Of the battle snaps asunder.