Crossword-Solution: SYENE
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SYENE | anagram | EENSY, SEYEN, SEYNE |
We have 9 clues for the answer “SYENE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ANCIENT Aswan | 1 answer |
| ASWAN, ancient (Afr.) | 1 answer |
| Ancient name for Aswan | 1 answer |
| Ancient name for Aswan, city on the Nile. | 1 answer |
| Ancient name of Aswan. | 1 answer |
| Aswan's ancient name | 1 answer |
| Aswan, formerly | 1 answer |
| Aswan, in the Bible | 1 answer |
| Town on the Nile, now Aswan. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SYENE (5)
Where is the land That hath not seen my trophies? Icy waves Of northern Phasis, hot Egyptian shores, And where Syene 'neath its noontide sun Knows shade on neither hand (31): all these have learned To fear Pompeius: and far Baetis' (32) stream, Last of all floods to join the refluent sea.
Syene (the modern Assouan) is the town mentioned by the priest of Sais, who told Herodotus that "between Syene and Elephantine are two hills with conical tops.
Midway between them are the fountains of the Nile." (Herod., II., chapter 28.) And see "Paradise Regained," IV., 70: -- "Syene, and where the shadow both way falls, "Meroe, Nilotick isle;..." (32) Baetis is the Guadalquivir.
Such is the task of Nile; thus in the world He finds his purpose, lest exceeding heat Consume the lands: and rising thus to meet Enkindled Lion, to Syene's prayers By Cancer burnt gives ear; nor curbs his wave Till the slant sun and Meroe's lengthening shades Proclaim the autumn.
Had he been born on hot Syene's site, Or sands where worship is to Ammon paid, Or nigh those hills, whence Nile's full waters spin, Orlando had not borne a dingier skin.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1952–1990).