Crossword-Solution: FESTIVA 7 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Novimus quanta lepore descripserit colloquia illa antemeridiana, symposia illa sobria et severa, sed eadem festiva et faceta, in quibus totiens mutata persona, modo poeta, modo professor, modo princeps et arbiter, loquendi, inter convivas suos regnat."_ I had no sooner got through listening to the speech and receiving my formal sentence as Doctor of Letters than the young voices broke out in fresh clamor.

The natives of the Amazonian region feed the common green parrot (_Chrysotis festiva,_ Linn.) with the fat of large Siluroid fishes, and the birds thus treated become beautifully variegated with red and yellow feathers.

Nothing can harm me,--since my lord is come! APPENDIX CARMINA FESTIVA THE LITTLE-NECK CLAM A modern verse-sequence, showing how a native American subject, strictly realistic, may be treated in various manners adapted to the requirements of different magazines, thus combining Art-for-Art's-Sake with Writing-for-the-Market.

Such is the panegyric of the nightingale, which contains the following impassioned lines:[4]-- "Implet silvas atque cuncta modulis arbustula, Gloriosa valde facta veris prae laetitia; Volitando scandit alta arborum cacumina, Ac festiva satis gliscit sibilare carmina." Such are the sapphics on the spring, which, though they date from the seventh century, have a truly modern sentiment of Nature.

For people so situated I make the following suggestion of varieties: _White_: Candissima, Festiva Maxima, Duchess de Nemours, Duke of Wellington, Couronne d'Or, Queen Victoria, Avalanche, Madam de Verneville, Mons Dupont, Marie Lemoine.