Crossword-Solution: PALINURUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Palinurus | n. | An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass |
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| Aeneas' helmsman. | 1 answer |
| AENEID, THE CHARACTER | 32 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with PALINURUS (5)
Not Palinurus so much as Polonius may perhaps—or so I sometimes suspect—have been really the character; but his own amiable view of the matter has to be mentioned in order to account for part of the tenor of the following correspondence.
Thus with gentle airs They glide along the main and reach the shore From Palinurus (2) named; for not alone On seas Italian, Pilot of the deep, Hast thou thy monument; and Libya too Claims that her waters pleased thy soul of yore.
One solitary distant star Is all I have to guide me, A brighter orb than those of old That Palinurus lighted.
PALINURUS After touching at the island of Sicily, where Acestes, a prince of Trojan lineage, bore sway, who gave them a hospitable reception, the Trojans re-embarked, and held on their course for Italy.
But the Sibyl rebuked him for the wish thus to transgress the laws of Pluto, but consoled him by informing him that the people of the shore where his body had been wafted by the waves, should be stirred up by the prodigies to give it the burial, and that the promontory should bear the name of Cape Palinurus, which it does to this day.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1956).