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  • Aeneas came back with a large army of Etruscans in time to save the camp, and furious war raged.
  • Prior even to his election as pope, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini paid for the restoration of the district church of S. Martino, which was reconsecrated on August 10, 1458.
  • When Aeneas first sees Dido in all her stately beauty, he says: [440] in freta dum fluvii current, _dum montibus umbrae lustrabunt convexa_, polus dum sidera pascet, semper honos nomenque tuum laudesque manebunt, quae me cunque vocant terrae. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
  • And if the parasite can, as some of our peasants believe, open all locks, why should it not have served as an “open Sesame” in the hands of Aeneas to unlock the gates of death? Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
  • But even in the most excellent determination of goodnesse, what Philosophers counsaile can so readely direct a Prince, as the feined Cirus in Xenophon, or a vertuous man in all fortunes: as Aeneas in Virgill, or a whole Common-wealth, as the Way Defence of Poesie
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  • Since stags and hinds, when deeply wounded with darts, arrows, and bolts, if they do but meet the herb called dittany, which is common in Candia, and eat a little of it, presently the shafts come out and all is well again; even as kind Venus cured her beloved byblow Aeneas when he was wounded on the right thigh with an arrow by Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
  • Their means is their misery, though they do apply themselves to the times, to lie, dissemble, collogue and flatter their lieges, obey, second his will and commands as much as may be, yet too frequently they miscarry, they fat themselves like so many hogs, as [3696] Aeneas Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Augustan ideals may retroactively remold the character and ambition of such figures as the Trojan Aeneas, but it is difficult to find in the Roman attitude toward Greek culture anything comparable to the humanist ideal of romanitas.
  • He expresses the desire to retreat and Aeneas chastises him offering his own chariot as a vehicle.
  • Aeneas' son Iulus kills a pet stag while hunting, and from that small spark a full-blown war develops.
  • Aeneas is the pater, the ancestor, the proto-Roman.
  • Finally Turnus and Aeneas meet in single combat.
  • Then the goddess, strange and ominous to see, fashions into the likeness of Aeneas a thin and pithless shade of hollow mist, decks it with Dardanian weapons, and gives it the mimicry of shield and divine helmet plume, gives unsubstantial [640-673] words and senseless utterance, and the mould and motion of his tread: like shapes rumoured to flit when death is past, or dreams that delude the slumbering senses. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Aeneas was our king, foremost of men in righteousness, incomparable in goodness as in warlike arms; whom if fate still preserves, if he draws the breath of heaven and lies not yet low in dispiteous gloom, fear we have none; nor mayest thou repent of challenging the contest of service. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • The Mosaic pavement of their duomo, or cathedral, has been much admired; as well as the history of Aeneas Sylvius, afterwards pope Pius II., painted on the walls of the library, partly by Pietro Perugino, and partly by his pupil Raphael Travels through France and Italy
  • Then good Aeneas rent away the raiment from his shoulders and called the gods to aid, stretching forth his hands: 'Jupiter omnipotent, if thou hatest not Troy yet wholly to her last man, if thine ancient pity looks at all on human woes, now, O Lord, grant our fleet to escape the flame, and rescue from doom the slender Teucrian estate. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Aeneas and a few other Trojan men escaped the city and set sail for a new land where they hoped to build a new Troy.
  • Nor would Plato have placed the frenzy of poets and seers among the chief blessings of life, and the oracle would not have called the labours of Aeneas insane.
  • Eryxidaidas; of Corinth, Aeneas the son of Ocytus, Euphamidas the son of Aristonymus; of Sicyon, Damotimus the son of Naucrates, The History of the Peloponnesian War
  • Aeneas was dreadfully tossed and endangered by a storm; and perhaps for the same reason Herod, that tyrant and cruel King of Judaea, finding himself near the pangs of a horrid kind of death — for he died of a phthiriasis, devoured by vermin and lice; as before him died L. Sylla, Pherecydes the Syrian, the preceptor of Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • In the famous sixth book of the Aeneid, Aeneas travels to the underworld in search of his father, Anchises.
  • Aeneas awoke and poured a libation and then told the vision to his father.
  • When Aeneas travels to the underworld, as most heroes do, he is accompanied by Sibyl, his guide sent by Apollo.
  • They pour libations and she asks Aeneas many questions about his suffering.
  • January 1, 2008 at 4: 46 pm aeneas, the refutation is simple. The Complicity Double Standard With Iran « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
  • In book three, Helenus tells Aeneas and his men that they must seek their future from the inspired prophetess of Cumae, who spells out the decree of the fates on the fragile parchment of leaves.
  • Aeneas perceived before him a spacious valley.
  • Using western classical music that included the Lament from Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas, as well as songs about death by Schubert and Canteloube, she performed a solo that was a stunning metaphor for pain and release. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Though Romans destroyed Carthage in the Punic Wars, Roman legend traced the very origin of Rome to the Carthanginian mother-city, as shown by the story of Aeneas, who came directly across the Mediterranean from there, to found Rome. Archive 2008-04-01
  • a participle; as, -- urbe captā, Aenēās fūgit, _when the city had been captured, Aeneas fled_ (lit. _the city having been captured_). New Latin Grammar
  • I first encountered Raymond Leppard as the brilliant harpsichordist in Barbirolli's recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
  • And as fires kindled dispersedly in a dry forest and rustling laurel-thickets, or foaming rivers where they leap swift and loud from high hills, and speed to sea each in his own path of havoc; as fiercely the two, Aeneas and Turnus, dash amid the battle; now, now wrath surges within them, and unconquerable hearts are torn; now in all their might they rush upon wounds. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Aeneas's opening declamation continues for nine more lines in the same fashion, and this speech is typical of all his others throughout the play.
  • Like Paris handsome [34] and like Hector brave, but as pious as Aeneas; "a rich fellow enough," with blood hopelessly blue and morals spotlessly copy-bookish -- in other words, a Sir Charles A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • Whereof a right pregnant instance by them is given in the nativities of Aeneas and Choroebus; the latter of which two is by Euphorion said to have been a fool, and yet had with the former the same aspects and heavenly genethliac influences. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • On the ninth day, Aeneas displays the prizes for the competition: tripods, garlands, gold, silver, armor.
  • This day wilt thou either bring back in triumph the gory head and spoils of Aeneas, and we will avenge Lausus 'agonies; or if no force opens a way, thou wilt die with me: for I deem not, bravest, thou wilt deign to bear an alien rule and a Teucrian lord.' The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Ironically, the way in which Aeneas abandons Dido in favour of his preordained fate is characteristic of Carthaginian treachery.
  • [827-860] At this lord Aeneas 'soul is thrilled with soft counterchange of delight. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Romulus and Aeneas were also considered ancestors of the gens Julia to which Augustus belonged.
  • The shameless cocotte Venus, wheedling her husband Vulcan for armour for Aeneas, her son by Anchises, disrobes aided by a passing amoretto and Vulcan himself in Vulcan and Venus.
  • Venues cloaks Achates and Aeneas so that no one will hinder their progress towards the city.
  • AEneas; these ideas, I say, and these sentiments, appertained to the polished century of Augustus and not to the epoch or, scene of the Trojan War. Satyricon
  • _ Steering to Cumae, where the Sibyl dwells, Aeneas seeks her cave, whose entrance is barred by bronzen gates, on which is represented the story of Daedalus, -- the first bird man, -- who, escaping from the Labyrinth at Crete, gratefully laid his wings on this altar. The Book of the Epic
  • Aeneas casts a spear and it pierces his shield and corselet going into his thigh.
  • 'O thou who dost sway mortal and immortal things with eternal command and the terror of thy thunderbolt, how can my Aeneas have transgressed so grievously against thee? how his Trojans? on whom, after so many deaths outgone, all the world is barred for Italy's sake. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Aeneas highlights what he calls the deception of the Greeks: an Argive solider had allowed himself to be captured, and he leads on the Trojans with an act and a tale, enticing them to bring the horse inside the citadel. Felix hominum

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