Word: choros
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...continent. The best among their discoveries included the Chardonnay Barrique of Morocco ("the finest white wine in North Africa"), Algeria's Domaine Ouzeva 96 (cabernet sauvigon) from Medea ("an area too dangerous to visit"), the Moelleux (chenin blanc) from Réunion, and Richard Leakey's Kenyan Ol Choro Onyore Pinot Noir 2001. Having had a go at uncorking Africa, they have now set their sights on South America. "We hear we might find some of the highest vineyards in the world in Ecuador," says John. "If we get there, we'll drink to that." And devotees of their guide...
...other personal treasures. One pyxis dug out of modern Greece's Wall Street contained a bronze mirror and the remains of some cosmetic cream. Most interesting find: a perfectly preserved pyxis showing six of the nine official muses of Greek mythology, and also an almost unknown muse. Choro, patron of the chorus of the Greek theater...
...praises in Latin, described Macmillan (Greats, 1919) as an "imperturbable Scot" who "watches the signs of the sky most attentively, but above all the Great Bear, whose progeny has lately added a bleep to the music of the spheres." (". . . caeli signa attentissime observat, ante omnia ursam maiorem, quae caelestium choro progeniem blantem nuper immiscuit.") Less vividly, Gaitskell (Mod. Greats, 1927) was hailed as a debater who "does not shirk the task of leadership when the free world is at stake...
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