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  • Perhaps a thousand times he had heard the remark, "Ilium fuit," followed in most instances by a hail to himself as "AEneas," with the inquiry "Where is old Anchises?"

    The Gilded Age, Part 4. Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Perhaps a thousand times he had heard the remark, "Ilium fuit," followed in most instances by a hail to himself as "AEneas," with the inquiry "Where is old Anchises?"

    The Gilded Age A tale of today Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • The Trojans, reduc’d to the last extremities, send Nisus and Euryalus to recall AEneas; which furnishes the poet with that admirable episode of their friendship, generosity, and the conclusion of their adventures.

    The AEneid Virgil 2002

  • Only the predestined champion, such as AEneas, can pluck, or break, or cut the bough — “Ipse volens facilisque sequetur

    Alfred Tennyson 1842

  • For eighty days St. Bernardine devoted himself to these Apostolic labours, which were crowned with the greatest success, AEneas Sylvius Piccolomini, afterwards Pope Pius II., writes: All Rome flocked to his discourses.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • For eighty days St. Bernardine devoted himself to these Apostolic labours, which were crowned with the greatest success, AEneas Sylvius Piccolomini, afterwards Pope Pius II., writes: All Rome flocked to his discourses.

    St Bernardine of Siena 2009

  • How Hercules his soul is in hell, and yet in heaven; and Julius his soul in a star, yet seen by AEneas in hell? — except the ghosts were but images and shadows of the soul, received in higher mansions, according to the ancient division of body, soul, and image, or simulachrum of them both.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • AEneas in Virgil, the thin habit of spirits was beyond the force of weapons.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • Sybil, AEneas never failed to bestow that title upon her.

    Satyricon 2007

  • Thus Augustus persuaded the Romans that he was descended from AEneas, who was the son of Venus, and numbered among the gods.

    Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

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