Crossword-Solution: PATRIO 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Heu quanto felicius patrio terram sulcasset aratro, quam scalmum piscatorium ascendisset! This satire engages his biographer to weigh the virtues and vices of Benedict XII.

But that Statius had no design of extending the plan of the Achilleis beyond this period, is expressly declared in the exordium of the poem: Magnanimum Aeaciden, formidatamque Tonanti Progeniem, et patrio vetitam succedere coelo, Diva, refer; quanquam acta viri multum inclyta cantu Maeonio; sed plura vacant.

Nam, initio occidit Hiempsalem, fratrem meum, dein patrio regno me expulit; quae sane fuerint nostrae injuriae, nihil ad vos.[154] Verum nunc vestrum regnum armis tenet, me, quem vos imperatorem Numidis posuistis, clausum obsidet; legatorum verba quanti fecerit, pericula mea declarant.

These lines are quoted by Eugenio Mele, in _La poesia barbara in Ispagna_, Bari, 1910.] page xlviii José Eusebio Caro wrote similar hexameters, and, strange to say, made alternate lines assonate: ¡Céfiro rápido lánzate! ¡rápido empújame y vivo! ¡Más redondas mis velas pon: del proscrito á los lados, haz que tus silbos susurren dulces y dulces suspiren! ¡Haz que pronto del patrio suelo se aleje mi barco! (_En alta mar_) The number of these direct imitations is large; but few succeeded.

The full title is: "Ordinatio Ecclesiae, sev Ministerii Ecclesiastici, in Florentissimo Regno Angliæ, conscripta sermone patrio, & in Latinam linguam bona fide conuersa, & ad consolationem ecclesiarum Christi, ubicunque locorum ac gentium, his tristissimis temporibus, edita, ab Alexandro Alesio Scoto sacrae theologiae doctore.