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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The Trojan hero of Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid, and son of Anchises and Aphrodite. He escaped the sack of Troy and wandered for seven years before settling in Italy.
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- proper noun Greek mythology A
Trojan hero and the legendary ancestor ofRomans . - proper noun A male
given name .
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- noun a mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War; hero of the Aeneid
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Examples
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Aeneas is a bright kid, but last year he would have rather been "cool" like some of the slackers in his class.
Epic Fail Ulysses 2009
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Aeneas is upset, Cassandra's in tears and Telemachus is denying responsibility.
Year-End Roundup Ulysses 2009
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Aeneas is a bright kid, but last year he would have rather been "cool" like some of the slackers in his class.
Archive 2009-10-01 Ulysses 2009
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Aeneas is having love troubles, which is bleeding attitude into EVERYTHING, while even as I type, Telemachus has some friends over for his 16th birthday party and they're trying to decide whether to watch movies or run around outside with flashlights and toy guns (he gets his definition of maturity from me ... and so far, it's not a bad thing).
Archive 2010-02-01 Ulysses 2010
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Aeneas is upset, Cassandra's in tears and Telemachus is denying responsibility.
Archive 2010-01-01 Ulysses 2010
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Aeneas is having love troubles, which is bleeding attitude into EVERYTHING, while even as I type, Telemachus has some friends over for his 16th birthday party and they're trying to decide whether to watch movies or run around outside with flashlights and toy guns (he gets his definition of maturity from me ... and so far, it's not a bad thing).
One Shirt, Two Pairs of Pants... Ulysses 2010
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Aeneas is thrilled by the sudden sight and, knowing not, asks the cause -- what is that river yonder, and who are the men thronging the banks in such a host?
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The shield of Aeneas is therefore, in fact, an interpolation, intended solely to flatter the pride of the
Ekphrasis and the Other William John Thomas 1994
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But if I ask with what letters the name Aeneas is written, all who have ever learned this will answer correctly, in accordance with the conventional understanding men have agreed upon as to these signs.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955
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213 The name Aeneas is here connected with the epithet AIEOS (awful): similarly the name
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