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aeneid
Alternative clues for the word aeneid
- A.P. Latin reading
- "The ___" (Virgil work)
- Epic tale that begins with the flight from Troy
- Provides an illustrious historical background for the Roman Empire
- Epic poem starting with the flight from Troy
- Epic poem with 9,896 lines
- Epic in 12 books
- Poem that tells of the Trojan Horse
- Virgil's classic epic
Word definitions for aeneid in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. classic epic poem, written in Latin by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC), that tells the legendary story of Aeneas fleeing Troy and settling in Italy as ancestor of the Romans.
Usage examples of aeneid.
If we add together the three great poems of antiquity -- the twenty-four books of the Iliad, the twenty-four books of the Odyssey, and the twelve books of the Aeneid -- we get at the dimensions of only one-half of The Faerie Queen.
Lactantius not only made no objection, but decided to come along, a scroll of the Aeneid firmly in his hand.
Likewise in the classical afterworlds of the Odyssey and Aeneid, Odysseus and Aeneas readily recognize and can talk with the shades of those recently dead.
In his Aeneid, Vergil reported that while on their way to devastate Italy, the Trojans encountered harpies.
Charles Thomson, the perennial secretary of Congress, replaced Bartons Deo favente with a motto borrowed from Virgils Aeneid Annuit coeptis (God has nodded at the undertaking)and another motto borrowed from Virgils EcloguesNovus ordo saeclorum (A new order of the ages is born).
He remembered something from his Catholic prep school, a passage from Virgil's Aeneid that had defined his mission almost two thousand years before: Una salus victus nullam sperare salutem.