Crossword-Solution: PROCNE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PROCNE | anagram | CREPON, PRONCE |
We have 3 clues for the answer “PROCNE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Philomel's sister, changed into a swallow. | 1 answer |
| Philomela's sister. | 1 answer |
| TEREUS, wife of | 2 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with PROCNE (5)
Let the gay lizard too keep far aloof His scale-clad body from their honied stalls, And the bee-eater, and what birds beside, And Procne smirched with blood upon the breast From her own murderous hands.
This is the feast that I have bid her to, And this the banquet she shall surfeit on; For worse than Philomel you used my daughter, And worse than Procne I will be revenged.
Procne, daughter of Pandion, king of Attica, was given to wife to Tereus in reward for his aid against an enemy; but Tereus dishonoured Philomela, Procne’s sister; and his wife, in revenge, served up to him the body of his own child by her.
Having brought the war, with the aid of Tereus, to a happy end, he gave him his daughter Procne to wife.
But she wove into a robe characters that told the whole story, and by means of these acquainted Procne with her sufferings.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1958–1961).