Crossword-Solution: NION 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 4

There is no memory so pleasant to me as that of the annual reünion of my aunts and uncles, with their respective troops of cousins, at the house of my dear grandmother of blessed memory.

The Hebrew form, "the statutes of the age," are rendered into Greek, everlasting or _ai[=o]nion_ statutes; "the covenant of the age," the _ai[=o]nion_ covenant, etc.

Another curious addition to the same scene is in the words [Greek: kai pur anêphthê en Iordanê], 'and a fire was kindled in Jordan.' Again, Justin Martyr speaks of our Lord having promised 'to clothe us with garments made ready for us if we keep his commandments'--[Greek: kai aiônion basileian pronoêsai]--whatever those words may precisely mean.

Duly impressed with these considerations, the stranger will be less disposed to complain when arriving at any place of fashionable resort in England; at Tonbridge, for instance, one of the most aristocratic; he finds himself consigned to the solitary comfort of his own apartments, without the prospect of any of those periods of social reünion, which elsewhere tend so strongly to break down the barriers of reserve and facilitate the process of introduction and acquaintance.

But in the Homeric passage referred to, the word is "sard_a_nion" (sardanion), not "sard_o_nion." There is no evidence that Sardinia was known to the composers of what we call Homer.