Tls 1067

[dafyddapgwilym]

Last two giving me severe grief:
5ac: Italian river is a sort of imperial souvenir (8) - T?B?R?A?
and
21ac: An Irishman in a Roman vessel (6) - ?A?I?A

Tiberias? Patina? WHY??

[Captain2]

5 Presumably (River) TIBER+IAS (anagram of 'is a')

[Oldred]

patina
(ˈpætɪnə)
n, pl -nae (-ˌniː)
1. (Historical Terms) a broad shallow dish used in ancient Rome

[from Latin, from Greek patanē platter]

[blinker]

21a patina. Pat (Irishman) in a
Can't parse tiberias

[Captain2]

Really must read all of the question before commenting!

[ladyalex]

Tiberias, according to wikipedia is a city in Israel named after the emperor Tiberius....so a kind of imperial souvenir...

[Captain2]

If it was named after Tiberius does that make it a souvenir/memento of The Imperial Roman Empire? (tenuous or what?)

[Captain2]

(You weren't there LadyA when I started that)

[Mamyalynne]

Possibly and also.........

//Tiberius left the imperial treasury with nearly 3 billion sesterces upon his death//

[ladyalex]

No worries, Captain2.

:-))

[Mamyalynne]

I suppose this link may be too tenuous for the TLS


http://www.jta.org/1931/10/14/archive/tiberias-becomes-important-station-on-imperial-airways-route-to-india

[dafyddapgwilym]

Many thanks to all.