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aeneid
/ˈiː.ni.ɪd/
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What does aeneid mean?
proper noun
- A classic epic poem, written in Latin by Virgil in the 1st century BCE (between 29 and 19 BCE), that tells the legendary story of Aeneas fleeing Troy and settling in Italy as ancestor of the Romans.
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No sooner had the bishop begun to read the first line of the Aeneid than the devils threw Martha into convulsions.
I can do without his "Iliad," and wait, if necessary, for the "AEneid."
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The poetic images, the versification and language of the Aeneid are delightful; but take the story by itself, and can any thing be more silly and unaffeCting?
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.’
And then as Tama Bulan, pretty well covered with blood, went away to wash himself, I felt as though I had just lived through a book of the AENEID, and was about to follow Father Aeneas to the shores of Latium.