Crossword-Solution: DECAS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Wherof the sothe schewe may, At Rome ferst if we beginne: The wall and al the Cit withinne Stant in ruine and in decas, The feld is wher the Paleis was, The toun is wast; and overthat, If we beholde thilke astat 840 Which whilom was of the Romeins, Of knyhthode and of Citezeins, To peise now with that beforn, The chaf is take for the corn, As forto speke of Romes myht: Unethes stant ther oght upryht Of worschipe or of worldes good, As it before tyme stod.

The decad, or denarius, indicated comprehensively all being, material and immaterial, in the utmost perfection: hence the term _decas_, or _denarius_, was used summarily for the whole science of numbers, as in the title of Meursius's tract _De Denario Pythagorico_, which was published four years after the date of the inscription, and when the philosophy was attracting much attention among European scholars.

Having returned to Leipzig in 1686, he published anonymously (two years later) his first work, _Scriptorum recentiorum decas_, an attack on ten writers of the day.

His _Decas Decadum, sive plagiariorum et pseudonymorum centuria_ (1689) is the only one ot his works to which be signs the name Faber.