Crossword-Solution: SEPTEM 6 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The number of books it contains does not exceed forty thousand volumes, which are all concealed from the view, and locked up in presses: as for the manuscripts, I saw none but such as are commonly presented to strangers of our nation; some very old copies of Virgil and Terence; two or three Missals, curiously illuminated; the book De Septem Sacramentis, written in Latin by Henry VIII.

Maurice, Professor Jowett, _Ecce Homo_, _Hypatia_, and now by Arthur Balfour, Mr Drummond, and many valiant companies of _Septem_ [why _Septem_?] _contra Diabolum_.” One must keep repeating the historical verity that the ideas of _In Memoriam_ could not have been “made familiar by” authors who had not yet published anything, or by books yet undreamed of and unborn, such as _Ecce Homo_ and Jowett’s work on some of St Paul’s Epistles.

Some sevenfold volumes put him in mind of Ovid’s sevenfold channels of the Nile at the conflagration:— “—ostia septem Pulverulenta vocant, septem sine flumine valles.” Such leaden labours are like Lycurgus’s iron money, which was so much less in value than in bulk, that it required barns for strong boxes, and a yoke of oxen to draw five hundred pounds.

Take a girl, endowed with gifts of music, well instructed in her art, with perfect ear, and read to her such a stanza with two words transposed, as, for instance-- Mercuri, nam te docilis magistro Movit Amphion _canendo lapides_, Tuque testudo resonare septem Callida nervis-- and she will find no halt in the rhythm.

Postea lenis, et fractis aquis domitaque violentia, et spatio fessus, tandem ad [Greek: Delta] opidum per omnem Ćgyptum vagus et dispersus, septem ingentibus ostiis in mare Ćgytium se evomit.