Crossword-Solution: SITIT 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Acting on the maxim _ecclesia non sitit sanguinem_ the Inquisitors did not put their victims to death by their own officers but handed them over to the civil authorities for execution.

The last Mass in the little church at Fort Lamport--doubly solemn because perforce so seldom attended--the white-headed old priest and his simple, straightforward counsels, and above all at that moment the words, intoned in the Sunday's epistle, "_Sed si esurierit inimicus tuus, ciba illum; si sitit, potum da illi_." ("But if thine enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if thirsty, give him to drink.") Renshaw's Christianity was of pure gold.

And on the last _and_ magno festivitatis, stabat great day of the festivity, Iesus, et clamabat, dicens: Si Jesus stood and cried, saying: quis sitit, veniat ad me, et If any man thirst, let him bibat.

Ovid then asked the flamen why a dog—_nova victima_—was sacrificed, and was told that the dangerous Dog-star was in the ascendant[320]: Est Canis, Icarium dicunt, quo sidere moto Tosta sitit tellus, praecipiturque seges.

Papa et alienas sitit opes, et suas exsorbet,[399] ut Achilles in Agamemnonem, Δημοβόρος βασιλεύς,[400] id est populi vexator rex.[401] Papa non modo rempublicam, quod non Verres, non Catilina, non quispiam peculator auderet, sed etiam rem ecclesiasticam et Spiritum Sanctum quaestui[402] habet, quod Simon ille Magus etiam detestaretur.