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Definition of Aeneid
1. Noun. An epic in Latin by Virgil; tells the adventures of Aeneas after the Trojan War; provides an illustrious historical background for the Roman Empire.
Definition of Aeneid
1. Proper noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aeneid
Literary usage of Aeneid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sophocles: with English notes by Sophocles, Fredericus H. M. Blaydes, Frederick Apthorp Paley (1880)
"aeneid, VII. and VIIL aeneid, IX. and X. aeneid, XI. and XIL Or in 12 séparait
... Bucolics. Georgics, I. and II. Georgics, III. and IV. aeneid, I. and II. ..."
2. A Treatise on Hydromechanics by William Henry Besant (1891)
"aeneid, Books V.-XII. Also the Bucolics and Georgics, in one vol. 3*. ... aeneid,
IX. and X. aeneid, XI. and XII. Or in 12 separate volumes (Cambridge Texts ..."
3. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by William Young Sellar (1897)
"And the aeneid is much more than a monument of national glory, lit is full of
pathetic situations and stirring incidents which move our human compassion or ..."
4. Res Romanae: Being Brief Aids to the History, Geography, Literature, and by Edward Philip Coleridge (1896)
"aeneid, Books V.-XII. Also the Bucolics and Georgics, in one vol. 3*. ... aeneid,
IX. and X. aeneid, XI. and XII. Or in 12 separate volumes (Cambridge Texts ..."
5. Hermathena by Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland) (1901)
"HAVING been struck by some remarkable resemblances in Horace's fine Ode, the
fourth of the Fourth Book, to the Second Book of the aeneid, I determined to ..."
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