Crossword-Solution: EGEO 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

ENTER _Argyrippus_ AND _Philaenium_ FROM THE DOORWAY OF _Cleareta’s_ HOUSE WHERE THEY HAVE BEEN STANDING _Argyr._ Cur me retentas? (_sadly_) Why hold me back? _Phil._ Quia tui amans abeuntis egeo.

Gradually Egeo-Mykenaean civilisation extended from Crete and the Greek lands to the west, influencing Sicily directly, and leaving distinct traces in Southern Italy, Sardinia and the Iberian peninsula, while Iberia in its turn contributed to the development of Western Gaul and the British Isles.

But a humble man and a temperate man can spare all this, and when he looketh on all the proud man's furniture, he can bless himself as Socrates did in a fair, with, _Quam multa sunt quibus ipse non egeo_! How many things be there which I have no need of! And he can pity the sensual desires which others must needs fulfil; even as a sound man pitieth another that hath the itch, or the thirst of a sick man in a fever, that crieth out for drink.

Utinam modo conata efficere possim! Rem enim, quod te non fugit, magnam complexus sum et gravem et plurimi otii, quo ego maxime egeo.