Æneas

A form of Aeneas — A Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor of Romans.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. archaicArchaic form of Aeneas.

    Acheron and Phlegeton, which a subterraneous fire causes to boil, are the billows of that hell which was visited by Æneas.

    1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[[Book XIII. Vesuvius and the plain of Naples.] Chap[ter] IV.] The extempore effusion of Corinna on the Plain of Naples.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume III, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 234
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    WHEN, according to the counsel of the gods, Troy was conquered by the Greeks, the noble Æneas, with a number of Trojans, fled from the burning city.

    1871, Wilhelm Ihne, chapter I, in The History of Rome, Longmans, Green, and Co., page 3
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