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Additional hints can be found in the Global Glossary and on the following My Word! pages: Roman Cursus Honorum, The Vocabulary of Tragedy, Ancient Music, and Ancient Poets.

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2 Ancient Greek god of music.
6 A double flute often used by a satyr.
7 Roman magistrate elected to conduct census.
9 A mythical monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and serpent's tail
12 Chief Roman magistrate.
13 Served in the Roman government but quit to write love poetry.
16 A pick for strumming a lyre.
17 Mythicals being part woman and part bird, who enticed sailors to their deaths with a seductive song.

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1 Roman magistrate from the plebian order.
3 Roman magistrate who served as a law court judge.
4 A mythical female being with the head of a human and the body of a lion.
5 Female Greek lyric poet.
7 Composed poems to Lesbia.
8 Ancient Greek writer of victory odes.
10 Roman satirical poet.
11 A rattle or castanets.
14 Daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
15 Mythical beings with the head of a woman and body of a bird.

 

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