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aeneas

/ˈæniəs/

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What does aeneas mean?

proper noun

  1. A Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor of Romans.
  2. A male given name from Ancient Greek.

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/ˈæniəs/

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It was like the golden branch that gained Aeneas and the Sibyl admittance into Hades.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven GablesProject Gutenberg ebook #77
Jove let Aeneas live, If to my sword his fate be not the glory, A thousand complete courses of the sun!
William ShakespeareThe Complete Works of William ShakespeareProject Gutenberg ebook #100
More book examples (3)
But good Aeneas order’d on the shore A stately tomb, whose top a trumpet bore, A soldier’s falchion, and a seaman’s oar.
VirgilThe AeneidTranslated by John DrydenProject Gutenberg ebook #228
They took, therefore, the opportunity of an annual feast which was celebrated at AEnia in honour of AEneas, and thither they went.
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
Thus Aeneas was, in strict metaphysical reality, a son of Venus.
Thomas H. Burgoyne; Belle M. WagnerThe Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #1650