For Dad, Christmas 2022
Across
- 3. Language spoken by the Samnites (5)
- 5. Only female judge of Israel, with a song named after her (7)
- 6. Once the largest city in the world, it was sacked and razed at the end of the seventh century BC. (7)
- 8. The best Roman wine. (9)
- 10. Sicily’s worst governor. (6)
- 19. Daughter of Latinus and wife of Aeneas. (7)
- 20. Christian apologist, advisor to Constantine and tutor to his son Crispus (9)
- 22. Co-consul of Cicero and uncle of Mark Antony (7)
- 23. Worn by those running for public office; rubbed with chalk. (4, 7)
- 24. responsible for maintenance of public buildings and festivals; an expensive job on the ladder. (6)
- 26. Castor’s twin. (6)
- 28. Octavian banned shrines to her inside the pomerium following Actium. (4)
- 30. The Great Mother (5,5)
- 32. River into the underworld that caused forgetfulness. (5)
- 33. Carried out of Troy. (8)
Down
- 1. Queen with statues in Colchester, London and Cardiff. (8)
- 2. David’s son (7)
- 4. Second century Latin playwright (7)
- 7. Ancient name for the Black Sea. (6,3)
- 9. They lived in Petra (9)
- 11. Not Charybdis (6)
- 12. Created the philosophy of pleasure (8)
- 13. Roman statesman who kept leaving his plough for the dictatorship (11)
- 14. Belief developed by Plotinus, following Plato (12)
- 15. Caesar was ransomed by pirates for ___ talents.(5)
- 16. One of five Spartan magistrates. (5)
- 17. Chief muse (8)
- 18. Greek open space and meeting place (5)
- 21. People took off their coats to stone him. (2, 7)
- 22. Cronus’ eldest and goddess of the hearth. (6)
- 25. Father of Roman poetry, only surviving in fragments (6)
- 27. Only gospel who refers to the Magi at the nativity (7)
- 29. Egyptian god of war and brother of Osiris (3)
- 31. Roman drink of wine and honey (hunny) (6)