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

But as Giovio does it naturally, and lays no special stress upon it, we are not offended if, in his melodious language, the cardinals appear as ‘Senatores,’ their dean as ‘Princeps Senatus,’ excommunication as ‘Dirae,’[584] and the carnival as ‘Lupercalia.’ This example of this author alone is enough to warn us against drawing a hasty inference from these peculiarities of style as to the writer’s whole mode of thinking.

Those which are beneficial they call Jupiter, Juno, Mercury, Ceres; those who are mischievous the Dirae, Furies, and Mars.

Two short poems called _Dirae_ and _Lydia_, which used to be printed among Virgil's _Catalecta_, bear his name, but are now generally regarded as spurious.

SONGS OF TWO NATIONS By Algernon Charles Swinburne CONTENTS A SONG OF ITALY ODE ON THE PROCLAMATION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC DIRAE I saw the double-featured statue stand Of Memnon or of Janus, half with night Veiled, and fast bound with iron; half with light Crowned, holding all men's future in his hand.

Iam satis terris nivis atque dirae Grandinis misit pater et rubente Dextera sacras iaculatus arcis Terruit urbem, Terruit gentis, grave ne rediret 5 Saeculum Pyrrhae nova monstra questae, Omne cum Proteus pecus egit altos Visere montis, Piscium et summa genus haesit ulmo, Nota quae sedes fuerat columbis, 10 Et superiecto pavidae natarunt Aequore dammae.