Crossword-Solution: LIBECCIO 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

There is a grotto here, where an inscription tells us that Byron once 'tempted the Ligurian waves.' It is just such a natural sea-cave as might have inspired Euripides when he described the refuge of Orestes in 'Iphigenia.' 143 VI.—LERICI Libeccio at last had swept the sky clear.

When we reached the little quay we found the surf of the Libeccio still rolling heavily into the gulf.

While tossing, it may be, at anchor in the port of Trapani, and wondering when the tedious Libeccio will release him, he must perforce remember that here Æneas instituted the games for Anchises.

The earliest known wind-roses on the _portulani_ or sailing charts of the Mediterranean pilots have almost invariably the eight principal points marked with the initials of the principal winds, Tramontano, Greco, Levante, Scirocco, Ostro, Africo (or Libeccio), Ponente and Maestro, or with a cross instead of L, to mark the east point.

Was n't that a carriage I heard in the 'cour'? Oh, pray don't open the window; there's an odious _libeccio_ blowing to-day, and there's nothing so injurious to the nervous system.” “A cabinet messenger, your Excellency,” said a servant, entering.