Crossword-Solution: GALEAS 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

News was heard there to the effect that young John Galeas, nephew of Ludovic the Moor and lawful Duke of Milan, was dead.

The principal galeas, or large galley, manned with three hundred galley slaves and having on board four hundred soldiers, was driven ashore near Calais, and nearly all the Spaniards were killed or drowned in attempting to reach land.

From shore to shore a formidable entrenchment completely barred the way; and not only was its front so staked and encumbered as to render a night attack impossible, but its approaches were swept by the guns and small-arms of a great galeas and two galleys which lay in the inner harbor.

Scilicet et tempus veniet, cum finibus illis Agricola, incurvo terram molitus aratro, Exesa inveniet scabra robigine pila, 495 Aut gravibus rastris galeas pulsabit inanes, Grandiaque effossis mirabitur ossa sepulchris.

But how unlike a poem it will sound, when the schools are opened on the Rappahannock again, and the boy scans,--choking down his sobs,-- "Aut gravibus rastris galeas pulsabit inanes, Grandiaque effossis mirabitur ossa sepulcris," and the master veils his eyes! I fear that Virgil was harmed by the Georgican success, and became more than ever an adulator of the ruling powers.