Crossword-Solution: LYCO 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Whence it is that they do not only read through Aesop's fables and the fictions of poets and the Abaris of Heraclides and Ariston's Lyco; but also such doctrines as relate to the souls of men, if something fabulous be mixed with them, with an excess of pleasure that borders on enthusiasm.

But rather whatsoeuer it be (if it be ought) and how mickle soeuer which for my slender abilitie I was able to afford in thy defence, I thought good not to suppresse it: for I esteeme not those men worthy of commendation, who despairing To ouergrow the limmes of Lyco stoute, Neglect to cure their bodies of the goute: And in very deed, it doeth no whit repent me of my labour, if this little treatise shall tend neither to thine, nor to mine owne disgrace.

But because it would be very dangerous if we went beyond Lyco” (Lycopolis?), on account of the inroad of robbers, he “could not see those saints.” The holy men and women of whom he wrote, he says, he did not see without extreme toil; and seven times he and his companions were nearly lost.

Insanire iuvat: cur Berecyntiae Cessant flamina tibiae? Cur pendet tacita fistula cum lyra? 20 Parcentis ego dexteras Odi: sparge rosas; audiat invidus Dementem strepitum Lycus Et vicina seni non habilis Lyco.

Aristo is frequently confounded with another philosopher of the same name, Ariston of Iulis, in Ceos, who, about 230 B.C., succeeded Lyco as scholarch of the Peripatetics.