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Latin Crossword Solution—General Knowledge (No. 29)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

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ACROSS. 1. The plant coltsfoot, for asthma, Plin. 26. 10. Old name for Naxos, Cat. lxiv. 52. 15. Cic. Ac. 2. 23. 72. 16. M. Aufidius Lurco, Plin. 10. 17. Ov. A.A. 2. 219. 18 rev. Cic. De Or. 3. 18. 65. 20. Juv. 10. 195. 22. A plant, Plin. 27. 24 rev. Old form of infin. 26. Arcturus, Rud. Plaut. 27. Plin. 9. 29. Juv. 6. 489. 31 rev. Cat. v. 3. 33. Epitomes of Livy and Ausonius. 38. Ov. F. 5. 621, rush figures of men. 39. Liv. 2. 9. 40. Cat. lxvi. 53, Zephyrus, his brother, who took the lock of Berenice. 41. Syrtis, Sall. J. lxxviii. 43. Plaut. Truc. 2. 2. 25. 44 rev. Ov. Am. 1. 2. 2. 45. Iaera, mother of Pandarus and Bitias. Virg. Aen. 9. 672, etc. 46. A ‘sconce’ at Oxford, Plaut. Rud. 2. 3. 33 (not exactly!). 48. Ov. F. 1. 631. Apologies; should have been Jan. 15th. 49. Plin. 8, where ‘immeantibus’ is used.

DOWN 1. With a flip, Suet. Tib. 68. 2. Plin. 11, a form of ‘eruca’ caterpillar. 3. Stribligo' or ‘strobiligo’. 4. Anagram of ‘roscido’, Plin. 9 on ‘chersinae’. 5. Livy's spelling of Helots. 6. The Corinthian courtesan (Athenaeus). 7. Ov. F. 1. 318. 8. Voc. Ganearius. ‘Lurco’ also menas a glutton. 9. Provincial name for a wood-louse. 12. rev. The sting-ray or torpedo. 13. Senseless: Laevius (not Naevius) ap. Gell. 19. 7. 3. 21. Pyrrhus—Ennius ap. Cic. Off. 1. 12. 38. 23. Outran Atalanta, son of Megareus, Ov. M. 10. 605. 25. For eburnas, Ov. M. 4. 185. 28. Anagram of ‘quaesit’ Lucr. 5. 1229. 30. His cashier, Suet. Dom. 11. 31. See various meanings of ‘saucia’ in L. & S. 32. ‘Obstinate’ was Latin! Caes. B.G. 5. 6. 34. Prop. 4. 8. 26. 35. Anagram of ‘intrav(it), Ov. M. 14. 642. 36 rev. Attic: Stat. Theb. 4. 453. 37–47 rev. Amasis, King of Egypt, Herodotus II. 42. So L. & S. 47–10. Midias, the Messenian, Plin. 7.