The Listener Crossword "No. 29"

THE LISTENER, OCTOBER 15, 1930

This Week's Crossword

No. 29 --- Virgil Bi-Millenary Crossword

We offer below a Virgilian Crossword in celebration of the bi-millenary of Virgil's birth and in the hopes that it will take some of our readers back to their school-days and their old enemy Pius Aeneas. Two volumes of Virgil's works (the Loeb Classical Library series) will be given to every sender of a correct solution which reaches us by, or before, the first post on Wednesday, October 22. Envelopes should be addressed to the Editor, THE LISTENER, B.B.C., 2, Savoy Hill, W.C.2, and marked 'Crossword' in the top left-hand corner.

CLUES ACROSS
1. Tros Anchisiade.
10. Huc omnis turba ad --- effusa ruebat (reversed).
11. A meaningless palindrome, suggesting the name Titus Optimus.
12. At rabidae tigres absunt et saeva leonum semina, nec miseros fallunt --- legentes (first three letters only).
14. Let him take (one letter missing).
16. Sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta --- (two letters transposed).
20. --- cum ardente viderent
     Scintillare oleum (first three letters only).
21. --- sic orsa loqui vates.
22. Clamorque virum stridorque ---.
24. MEAE.
25. Two words describing Amyntas (the last six letters somewhat transposed).
27. Apparet Camerina procul campique --- (reversed).
28. Tells of Virgil's birth (2 1/2 words).
30. Facilis descensus --- (reversed and last letter omitted).
31. Et ventis et fulminis --- alis (first three letters only).
32. Tyrrhenusque tubae --- per aethera clangor (first three letters only).
33. An imaginary proverb (two words) analogous to "pearls before swine."
35. Tum se ad Cairtae --- fert litore portum (vowels omitted).
36. Two thirds (letters transposed).
37. Anag. of neuter plural of the adjective of a town built on the site of the ancient Sybaris.
38. Long.
41. Improvisus ait: 'Coram, quem quaeritis ---
     Troius Aeneas, Libycis ereptus ab undis (first three letters only).
42.      grates persolvere dignas
      Non --- est nostrae (one vowel omitted).
45. 102.
46. Ter sese attollens --- annixa levavit (first two syllables only).
48. Generally means a trumpet in Virgil.
51. In which direction (one letter omitted).
52. Saxa ciet, scatebrisque --- temperat arva (first five letters).
53. Quondam etiam victis redit in --- virtus (reversed and last three letters missing).
56. IEP.
57. Descendunt centauri, Homolem Othrymque nivalem linquentes cursu rapido. (The letters are to be found in the second and third words of the above.)
58. Ostendit dextram --- Entellus (last two letters missing).
59. Bellantum litousque pati --- que --- ferre --- et stabulo frenos audire sonantes; (last two letters omitted).
60 & 27 down. Lucentemque globum junae Titaniaque astra ---, totamque infusa per artus mens agitat molem et magno se corpore miscet.

DOWN
1. --- natorum sanguine matrem commaculare manus.
2. Ambo florentes aetatibus --- (last letter omitted).
3. --- --- surdis, respondent omnia silvae.
4. --- nunc, metuende, jace (the second vowel omitted).
5, 26.    et litore celsas
     deducunt toto naves --- --- ---
6. Orbus --- maeret volucres evectus in auras (but the word here is plural).
7, 8. Noctes atque dies patet --- janua --- (8 reversed).
9.      --- --- --- lasciva puella
      et fuget ad salices, et se cupit ante videri.
13. An emptying (reversed); not Virgilian.
15. 'A loftier Argo cleaves the main
      Fraught with a later prize'.
      (Three words of the Virgilian quotation.)
16.          Cithara --- --- personat aurata, docuit quem maximus Atlas.
17. IUGT.
18. These letters suggest a city famous for its statue of Venus.
19. --- Unde Atii duxere Latini (reversed and middle consonant omitted).
21. Quique Rufras Batulumque tenent atque arva --- (last two letters missing).
23. MME.
24. Haud equidem pretio inductus pulchroque juvenco venissem, nec dona ---.
26. See 5 down.
27. See 60 across.
29. quam facile --- saxo sacer ales ab alto consequitur pennis sublimem in nube columbam.
34. Sed cadat ante --- mediaque inhumatus arena (reversed and last letter omitted).
39. hoc --- velit et magno mercentur Atridae (reversed).
40. Suspensi Eurypylum scitantem oracula Phoebi --- (last letter omitted).
43. Serpitque per agmina ---.
44. Tres equitum numero turmae --- vagantur
     ductores (reversed and last two letters missing).
47. --- vel molli melius feret esseda collo (last two letters missing).
49. In --- luctantur marmore tonsae (anag.).
50. Et patrio Andromachen iterum --- marito (anag. of first five letters only).
54. Et rabie fera corda --- (anag. of first four letters only).
55. Digitis --- uterque (first three letters only).