Crossword-Solution: PORA 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

SOCRATES: The meaning of sumpheron (expedient) I think that you may discover for yourself by the light of the previous examples,—for it is a sister word to episteme, meaning just the motion (pora) of the soul accompanying the world, and things which are done upon this principle are called sumphora or sumpheronta, because they are carried round with the world.

But he believed that no operas in the world were equal to his own, and he composed fifty of them during his life, extending to the days of Haydn, whom he had the honor of teaching, while the father of the symphony, on the other hand, cleaned Por-pora's boots and powdered his wig for him.

But just then a shot rang out and the cap of the Grand Duke twitched around on his head._ _A roar went up from near the gate,_ "Nasha pora prishlà! _Break in the gate!" cried the voices and there were those of women among them shouting_ "Tovaristchi! _Forward!"_ _Over the heads of those in the front ranks, Peter Nicholaevitch saw some men bringing from the forest the heavy trunk of a felled pine tree.

The words on which his etymology is founded are no doubt Malay: _singah_, 'to tarry, halt, or lodge,' and _pora-pora_, 'to pretend'; and these were probably supposed to refer to the temporary occupation of Sinhapura, before the chiefs who founded it passed on to Malacca.

They are simply wire frames covered with creepers to keep off greatest heat and heaviest rain--creepers such as the _Tinas pora crispa_ from Java, with its hanging roots.