Crossword-Solution: GERAS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Contra facientes, pro impijs et profanis habeas: vt omnia ad pietatis et honestatis prćscriptum geras, in vita priuata et communi, vt huic status et ordines Ecclesiastici et Politici, in vniversum obtemperent: In vtroque vitć genere ab illi amussi seu norma ćqui et boni dependeas, et cćteros qui pertinacia ac impietate ab ea deflectunt, auersens, quos ćquum est poenis condignis affici, id quod magistratur curć futurum non diffidimus.

The like is also witnessed by Opilius Macrinus, to whom, being desirous to know if he should be the Roman emperor, befell, by chance of lot, this sentence in the Eighth of the Iliads-- O geron, e mala de se neoi teirousi machetai, Ze de bin lelutai, chalepon de se geras opazei.

Theirs was the old Grecian spirit, and the great heart of the Theban poet lived again in them:-- thanein d' oisin anagka ti ke tis ananumon geras en skoto kathemenos epsoi matan, apanton kalon ammoros "Seeing" in Gilbert's own brave words, "that death is inevitable, and the fame of virtue is immortal; wherefore in this behalf mutare vel timere sperno." In the conclusion of these light sketches we pass into an element different from that in which we have been lately dwelling.

Geras of Chalcedon was the first to make a wooden platform with wheels under it, upon which he constructed a framework of uprights and crosspieces, and within it he hung the ram, and covered it with oxhide for the better protection of the men who were stationed in the machine to batter the wall.

Rogamus, ut, professionis tuae memor, talem te cum Vitebergensibus tuis iam geras, qualem te ab initio huius causae gessisti, hoc est, ut ea sentias, dicas, scribas, agas, quae Philippum, doctorem Christianum, non aulicum philosophum decent." (Tschackert, 506.) In a similar manner Melanchthon was admonished also by Brenz, who preferred exile and misery to the Interim.