Crossword-Solution: MONIC 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The only reservation made was that the man to whom the Evil One came as tempter, could use his free will to resist.[1215] In Italy the dæmonic influence, especially as shown in natural events, easily assumed a character of poetical greatness.

Full of his notions about an arkite idolatry and a Helio-dæmonic worship, Edward Davies gives this translation of an old Welsh poem, entitled _The Panegyric of Lludd the Great_:— ‘A song of dark import was composed by the distinguished Ogdoad, who assembled on the day of the moon, and went in open procession.

Nash, and says that the poem is a middle-age composition, with nothing Helio-dæmonic about it; that it is meant to ridicule the monks; and that _O Brithi_, _O Brithoi_! is a mere piece of unintelligible jargon in mockery of the chants used by the monks at prayers; and he gives this counter-translation of the poem:— ‘They make harsh songs; they note eight numbers.

And so Mantegna, with his Roman kindness for whatever had breath and vigour and boldness of design, carved his _Judith_ on the lines of a Vestal Virgin, and gave her the rapt, dæmonic features of the Tragic Muse.

What Shakespeare loved in her was what he himself lacked or possessed in lesser degree--that dæmonic power of personality which he makes Enobarbus praise in Cleopatra and which he praises directly in the sonnet-heroine.