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Aeneid

[ US /əˈniɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. an epic in Latin by Virgil; tells the adventures of Aeneas after the Trojan War; provides an illustrious historical background for the Roman Empire

How To Use Aeneid In A Sentence

  • His first works are called the Eclogues, a collection of pastoral poetry done in the same meter as the Aeneid (dactylic hexameter).
  • Translation of the sixth book of the Aeneid, in burlesque. - The burlesque came into fashion at that time.
  • In the famous sixth book of the Aeneid, Aeneas travels to the underworld in search of his father, Anchises.
  • The seeds of my ardour were the sparks from that divine flame whereby more than a thousand have kindled; I speak of the "Aeneid," mother to me and nurse to me in poetry. ' My Antonia
  • All this imagery occurs with shades of the medieval world of Dante's Inferno, Virgil's Aeneid, and the fire-and-brimstone typology of the Bible.
  • The Aeneid has none of the meretricious involutions of plot, none of the puzzling half-uttered allusions to essential facts, none of the teasing interruptions of the neoteric story book. Vergil
  • V. Aeneid, I. 726: dependent lychni laquearibus aureis incensi, et noctem flammis funalia vincunt. The Waste Land
  • For generations of adults, the simple word-series "amo, amare, amavi, amatus" used to act as a kind of madeleine, calling to mind long classroom hours spent conjugating Latin verbs (including this one, meaning "love"), then exploring Gaul in its three parts and eventually trying to puzzle out the syntax of the rugged lines that followed "Arma virumque cano," the opening phrase of Virgil's "The Aeneid. The Ne Plus Ultra of Languages
  • ‡ In the Aeneid of Virgil, which was written in Latin, Odysseus is called Ulysses. Ulysses
  • Cheles has discerned a valuable link between the phrase "virtutibus itur ad astra," represented at Urbino, and the opened manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, displayed on the lectern in the Gubbio studiolo. 156 The page shown at Gubbio contains the following passage: "Each has his day appointed; short and irretrievable is the span of life to all: but to lengthen fame by deeds — that is valour's task. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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