Crossword-Solution: HELLENO 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Whether physically they were very different from the soldiers of Cyrus may be doubted, but morally they had fallen far below the ancient standard; their self-respect, their love of country, their attachment to their monarch had diminished; no one showed any great devotion to the cause for which he fought; after two defeats the empire wholly collapsed; and the Persians submitted, apparently without much reluctance, to the Helleno-Macedonian yoke.

But the great difficulty in fixing a locality for this Thraco-Pelasgic, or Helleno-Latin language (call it what we will) lies in a reason which the reader of the first chapter of this book may, perhaps, anticipate.

They form, however, the basis of some claim for the existence of Slavonic elements in the old heroic poetry of Greece; which--it must be remembered--originated on the Helleno-Slavonic debatable land of Æolic Asia.