Crossword-Solution: PERSIANS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| IRANIANS | 1 answer |
| Xerxes' people | 1 answer |
| PAROS Island conquerors (490 BC) | 1 answer |
| NAXOS Island invaders (490 BC) | 1 answer |
| Medes' kin | 1 answer |
| Losing side in the Battle of Marathon, 490 B.C. | 1 answer |
| Long-haired felines | 1 answer |
| Iranians of yore | 1 answer |
| Iranians of the past | 1 answer |
| Followers of Xerxes | 1 answer |
| Darius's subjects | 1 answer |
| Darius and subjects. | 1 answer |
| Alexander adversaries | 1 answer |
| Long-haired cats | 2 answers |
| Ancient Iranians | 2 answers |
| Natives of Isfahan | 2 answers |
| People of Asia. | 6 answers |
| PHRYGIAN ruler(s) | 6 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
MEAZCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PERSIANS (5)
But he first became widely known by anticipating an eclipse of the sun for May 585 B.C., which happened to coincide with the final battle of the war between the Lydians and the Persians.
Make merry, comrades, eat and drink (The sunlight flashes on the sea); My spirit is rejoiced to think That even as they were so are we; For they, like us, were mortals vain, The slaves to earthly passions wild, Who slept with heaps of Persians slain For winding-sheets around them piled.
But on the eighth day, and before I had yet turned away from Jehovah for the glittering god of the Persians, there appeared a dark line upon the edge of the forward horizon, and soon the line deepened into a delicate fringe, that sparkled here and there as though it were sewn with diamonds.
Some authorities say he was called Homer, because his father was given as a hostage to the Persians by the men of Cyprus; others, because of his blindness; for amongst the Aeolians the blind are so called.
XXVI “Turks, Persians conquered, Antiochia won, Be glorious acts, and full of glorious praise, By Heaven’s mere grace, not by our prowess done: Those conquests were achieved by wondrous ways, If now from that directed course we run The God of Battles thus before us lays, His loving kindness shall we lose, I doubt, And be a byword to the lands about.
Quotes with PERSIANS (3)
If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.
In the foreign country, we call the past, crucifixion was a common punishment. It was invented by the Persians, carried back to Europe by Alexander the Great, and widely used in Mediterranean empires.
Having sent gifts and messengers to the oracle at Delphi, the king of the Lydians sent this message: "[The king] asks you again now whether he shall march against the Persians, and if so, whether he shall join with himself any army of men as allies." The oracle replied that, "if he should march against the Persians he should destroy a great empire." Little did he know which empire he was to destroy. It was to be his own, of course, as Cyrus the Great was ascendant. Quotations from Herodotus' Histories.
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1958–2016).