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Misenum, 24 August, AD 79. Pliny the Elder, admiral of the fleet, is at his books when his sister points out a cloud of unusual size and shape rising over a mountain across the bay. It is shaped like an umbrella pine. He orders a fast ship to be made ready, and when a message comes begging for help, he turns a scholar's outing into a rescue.
Years later his nephew tells the story to the historian Tacitus. Seven puzzles from that letter stand between you and the end of the voyage to Stabiae. Solve them all, and one last word names what the letter was written to win for him.
Crossword — the eruption, the sea and the shore, from Pliny's letter.
Anagrams — unscramble seven words from the elder Pliny's last voyage.
Cipher — decode a message in Latin, then answer the riddle it asks.
Matching — five deponent verbs from the letter, proficīscor, ēgredior, cōnor, revertor and morior, in the present and the perfect.
Picture Count — reassemble the shore at Stabiae, 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.
Seventeen words from the eruption and the voyage. Every clue gives the English meaning; you supply the Latin. Fill the grid — every crossing letter must agree both ways. Eight cells are marked in red: once the grid is solved, their letters unscramble into one more word.
The grid is correct. Unscramble the eight red letters:
Seven words from the elder Pliny's last voyage. Unscramble each one.
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Glōria — glory. Pliny wrote to Tacitus so that his uncle's death would be told in a history that lasts for ever. He had died, his nephew says, in the ruin of the loveliest of lands, like one who would live for all time.