Crossword-Solution: TROPOS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Desde luengos años era maestro de latinidad y retórica en el Instituto, cuya noble profesión dióle gran caudal de citas horacianas y de floridos tropos, que empleaba con gracia y oportunidad.

The variety is greater than in those of Gautier, because, just as "Théo" had the advantage of Prosper in point of poetry, he had a certain disadvantage in point of range of intellect, or, to prevent mistake, let us say interest--which perhaps is only another _tropos_ (as the Greeks would have said and as the chemists in a very limited sense do say after them) of the same thing.

What sayst thou, Najara, mi Corcobado, mi Hacedor de Tropos?" "Even that the will-o-th'-wisps, the Ignes-fatui, rising out of our decaying bodies, will forsake each honest man's corse, to gather, glory-wise, about the head of our leader.--Is that to thy liking?" "Marvellously! Thy wit explains and gives tongue to my thoughts.

Ptolemy assigns it too high a value.) This signe of Cancre is cleped the Tropik of Somer, of _tropos_, that is to seyn 'agaynward'; for thanne by-ginneth the sonne to passe fro us-ward.

The green jasper, as before stated, was also known as the Heliotropion (Heliotrope), a word derived from Greek HELIOS, the sun, and TROPOS, a turn—probably in allusion to the planet Mercury which turns nearest the Sun.