Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An Italic king who waged unsuccessful war against Aeneas, who killed him.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tiger-swallowtail, Papilio turnus, a large yellow black-striped swallow-tailed butterfly common in the United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of
Papilio glaucus syn.Jasoniades glaucus . The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called alsotiger swallowtail . SeeIllust. underswallowtail .
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Examples
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"Turnus," said he, "you are heir to the kingdom of your father Daunus.
Story of Aeneas Michael Clarke 1880
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Of course, prophesy eventually dictates that Lavinia is meant to marry a foreigner, and Turnus in his anger incites a civil war against Aeneas and his men.
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Eventually Lavinia grows into adulthood and is promised to Turnus, King of the Rutulians.
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"King Turnus has a great deal to offer his bride," she said.
'Lavinia' 2008
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Now all Etruria was angry with Turnus for receiving and sheltering the tyrant, who had abused his power so cruelly that even the Lars and the Penates of his household had forsaken him.
'Lavinia' 2008
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Imagine: what if Turnus had defeated Aeneas, forcing him to return home and fight his way back through the Greek armies to rebuild the originial Troy?
Battlestar Galactica Season Finale Richard Nokes 2006
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The Rutulians had been close allies of ours since Latinus married Daunus's sister Amata, but young Turnus showed signs of wanting to go his own way.
'Lavinia' 2008
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Turnus would certainly have recognised the poet's portrait of me as a shrinking silent maiden.
'Lavinia' 2008
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Turnus lifted his cup – the doublehandled gold goblet from Cures engraved with a hunting scene, loot from one of my father's wars, our best piece of tableware – and said, "Fairest of all the daughters of Father Tiber, may you have sweet dreams!"
'Lavinia' 2008
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Turnus stayed several days with us, but I met him again only once.
'Lavinia' 2008
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