Fuga Mīsēnō
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Misenum, the morning after his uncle sailed. Seventeen-year-old Pliny has stayed behind with his mother, and is reading Livy. All night the earth has been shaking. Now the carts will not stay still, the sea has drawn back and left its creatures stranded on the sand, and a black cloud split by fire is coming down over the bay.
His mother begs him to run and leave her behind. He refuses. Seven puzzles from his letter to Tacitus stand between you and the end of that terrible day. Solve them all, and one last word tells you how it ended.
Crossword — the earthquake, the darkness and the crowd, from Pliny's letter.
Anagrams — unscramble seven words from the flight from Misenum.
Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
Matching — two verbs, fugiō ("to flee") and videō ("to see"), in five tenses.
Picture Count — reassemble the road out of Misenum, then count what you see.
Odd One Out — find the word that doesn't belong in each row to build the story, then answer questions about it.
Final Rebus — one clue from every lock. Their first letters spell the final word.
Every answer box checks itself. Spelling and capitals are forgiving, and macrons are never needed.
Eighteen words from the flight from Misenum. Every clue gives the English meaning; you supply the Latin. Fill the grid — every crossing letter must agree both ways. Seven cells are marked in red: once the grid is solved, their letters unscramble into one more word.
The grid is correct. Unscramble the seven red letters:
Seven words from the flight from Misenum. Unscramble each one.
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The password was:
Salvus — safe. When the darkness thinned and a real day came back, everything was buried deep in ash, as if in snow. Pliny and his mother went back to Misenum, shaken, but alive and together.