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  • But good Aeneas heaps a mighty mounded tomb over him, with his own armour and his oar and trumpet, beneath a skyey mountain that now is called Misenus after him, and keeps his name immortal from age to age.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Corynasus as purifying his companions, at the funeral of Misenus, by passing three times around them while aspersing them with the lustral waters; and to do so conveniently, it was necessary that he should have moved with his right hand towards them.

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • And therewithal the Teucrians on the beach wept Misenus, and bore the last rites to the thankless ashes.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • And alone with his sad heart he ponders it all, gazing on the endless forest, and utters this prayer: 'If but now that bough of gold would shew itself to us on the tree in this depth of woodland! since all the soothsayer's tale of thee, Misenus, was, alas! too truly spoken.'

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Misenus the Aeolid, excelled of none other in stirring men with brazen breath and kindling battle with his trumpet-note.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • So when they swooped clamorously down along the winding shore, Misenus from his watch-tower on high signals on the hollow brass; my comrades rush in and essay the strange battle, to set the stain of steel on the winged horrors of the sea.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Thus Misenus, whilst unburied, _incestat funere classem_.

    The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

  • And even as they came, they see on the dry beach Misenus cut off by untimely death,

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • The controversy dragged on under Felix II (or III) who sent two legatine bishops, Vitalis and Misenus, to Constantinople, to summon

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Another bishop of Cuma was the Misenus who went in 483, with Vitalis and

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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