Crossword-Solution: THERMOPYLAE
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| Bataan is called the American ___. | 1 answer |
| Greek battleground: 480 B. C.–1941 A. D. | 1 answer |
| Historic Greek gate | 1 answer |
| LEONIDAS, battle site of | 1 answer |
| Where Persia defeated Sparta in 480 B.C. | 1 answer |
| XERXES, victory site of | 2 answers |
| ANTIOCHUS III, lost battle of | 2 answers |
| Ancient battle site | 2 answers |
| XERXES, battle site of | 4 answers |
| Pass through | 73 answers |
| Pass on | 81 answers |
| Pass | 187 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MECEAZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with THERMOPYLAE (5)
Paul addressing the ancient Athenians; to Thermopylae and Salamis, to run through the facts and traditions of the Second Invasion—the result of his endeavours being more or less chaotic.
Three hundred soldiers feasted high An hour before Thermopylae; Leonidas pour'd out the wine, And shouted ere he drain'd the cup, "Ho! comrades, let us gaily dine-- This night with Pluto we shall sup"; And if they leant upon a reed, And if their reed was slight and slim, There's something good in Spartan creed-- The lights are growing dim.
The Roman that filled the gulf with his own body--the men who died at Thermopylae--they live to-day, and they have been talking with us.” “But if you join Houston you will save many lives.” “That isn’t always the point, sir.
Budd was on his way to “The Pocket”--the voting place of one faction--where he had never been, where the hostility against him was most bitter, and, that day, he knew he was “up against” Waterloo, the crossing of the Rubicon, holding the pass at Thermopylae, or any other historical crisis in the history of man.
The troops which had been posted to defend the Straits of Thermopylae, retired, as they were directed, without attempting to disturb the secure and rapid passage of Alaric; 7 and the fertile fields of Phocis and Boeotia were instantly covered by a deluge of Barbarians who massacred the males of an age to bear arms, and drove away the beautiful females, with the spoil and cattle of the flaming villages.
Quotes with THERMOPYLAE (3)
Here is what you do, friends. Forget country. Forget king. Forget wife and children and freedom. Forget every concept, however noble, that you imagine you fight for here today. Act for this alone: for the man who stands at your shoulder. He is everything, and everything is contained within him. That is all I know. That is all I can tell you.--Dienekes at Thermopylae
O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here we Are laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed.Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδεκείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]
A short, glorious life in service of a greater good - say, the life of the Spartans at Thermopylae, or the pilots in the Battle of Britain, of whom Winston Churchill said 'Never have so many owed so much to so few,' - that is worth praising. But for glory alone? I think not.
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1942–2010).