Crossword-Solution: NORIC 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Well would he trow it who, so long after, still High Alps and Noric hill-forts should behold, And Iapydian Timavus' fields, Ay, still behold the shepherds' realms a waste, And far and wide the lawns untenanted.

Buonaparte’s passage across the Noric Alps in 1797 may be made to appear the noblest resolution, but also as an act of sheer temerity.

Hoar-frost, dense and glittering, covered the trees and the verdure of the meadows; and the Noric Alps, which crowned the horizon with a majestic wreath, had adorned themselves during the night with sparkling robes of snow and brilliant diadems of ice.

Afterwards they crossed the Danube, and seized Dalmatia, Illyricum, Istria, Carniola, and the Noric Alps.

Whether Dacian Probus or Noric Odoacer be on the throne of it, the force of its living principle alone is to be watched--remaining, in arts, in laws, and in habits of thought, dominant still in Europe down to the twelfth century;--in language and example, dominant over all educated men to this hour.