Crossword-Solution: UNBATHED 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Her fair-haired handmaids heat the brazen urn, The bath preparing for her lord’s return In vain; alas! her lord returns no more; Unbathed he lies, and bleeds along the shore! Now from the walls the clamours reach her ear, And all her members shake with sudden fear: Forth from her ivory hand the shuttle falls, And thus, astonish’d, to her maids she calls: [Illustration: ] THE BATH “Ah follow me! (she cried) what plaintive noise Invades my ear? ’Tis sure my mother’s voice.

Compare Virgil’s description of Camilla, who “Outstripp’d the winds in speed upon the plain, Flew o’er the field, nor hurt the bearded grain: She swept the seas, and, as she skimm’d along, Her flying feet unbathed on billows hung.” Dryden, vii.

One or two women stand by to take it, wrapped in cloth, into the dwelling, where for three days it remains unbathed.

For how, my honour'd inmate! shalt thou learn That I in wisdom œconomic aught Pass other women, if unbathed, unoiled, Ill-clad, thou sojourn here? man's life is short, 410 Whoso is cruel, and to cruel arts Addict, on him all men, while yet he lives, Call plagues and curses down, and after death Scorn and proverbial mock'ries hunt his name.

She was exceedingly sticky and uncomfortable from honey and tears, and she shivered with repugnance at the odor of Marthy's unbathed person.