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

Spring hesitates to smile upon these chill uplands; we are still in the grip of winter— Aut aquilonibus Querceti Gargani laborent Et foliis viduantur orni— so sang old Horace, of Garganian winds.

Some observations of mine on a species of Orni-thomyia--a fly parasitical on birds--might possibly be of use in considering the question of the anomalous position in nature of insects possessing the instincts and aptitudes of parasites, and organs manifestly modified to suit a parasitical mode of life, yet compelled and able to exist free, feeding, perhaps, on vegetable juices, or, like the ephemerae, on nothing at all.

Permitte divis cetera; qui simul Stravere ventos aequore fervido 10 Deproeliantis, nec cupressi Nec veteres agitantur orni.

Non semper imbres nubibus hispidos Manant in agros aut mare Caspium Vexant inaequales procellae Usque, nec Armeniis in oris, Amice Valgi, stat glacies iners 5 Mensis per omnis, aut Aquilonibus Querceta Gargani laborant Et foliis viduantur orni: Tu semper urges flebilibus modis Mysten ademptum, nec tibi Vespero 10 Surgente decedunt amores Nec rapidum fugiente solem.

Cormier's own words: "_Mais, par exemple, comme routes, Dieu que c'est mauvais! Malgré cela, j'y retournerai; le pays vaut la peine que l'on affronte les cailloux, les ornières, les dos d'âne at les dérapages sur le sol mouillé, comme je l'ai trop trouvé, hélas!_" Of the road from Vienna, through Moravia and Bohemia, the tourist wrote also feelingly.