Crossword-Solution: RIPAE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Campanella, Bruno, and Bacon stand, as it were, on the brink of the dividing stream, tenduntque manus ripae ulterioris amore.

The first compares an army following its general across a river to a herd of cattle following the leading bull: [28] "Ac velut ignotum si quando armenta per amnem Pastor agit, stat triste pecus, procul altera tellus [29] Omnibus, et _late medius timor_: ast ubi ductor Taurus init fecitque vadum, tune mollior unda, Tunc faciles saltus, visaeque accedere ripae." This is elegant in style but full of ambiguities, if not experiments, in language.

Vile potabis modicis Sabinum Cantharis, Graeca quod ego ipse testa Conditum levi, datus in theatro Cum tibi plausus, Care Maecenas eques, ut paterni 5 Fluminis ripae simul et iocosa Redderet laudes tibi Vaticani Montis imago.

Time was to bring relief, said everybody; but Time has not to any extent, nor, in truth, did I much wish him Eurydicen vox ipsa et frigida lingua, Eurydicen toto referebant flumine ripae.

What is the most romantic line in Virgil? Surely it is the line which describes the ghosts, staying for waftage on the banks of the river, and stretching out their hands in passionate desire to the further shore: Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore.