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  • Aletes, the discoverer of the mines in Celtiberia.

    Salammbo 2003

  • Mnestheus gives Nisus the shaggy spoils of a lion's hide; faithful Aletes exchanges his helmet.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Aletes, have yielded to the storm; through the shaken fastenings of their sides they all draw in the deadly water, and their opening seams give way.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Thereon aged Aletes, sage in counsel: 'Gods of our fathers, under whose deity Troy ever stands, not wholly yet do you purpose to blot out the

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • So Helymus does, so Aletes ripe of years, so the boy Ascanius, and the rest of the people follow.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Aletes, B.C. 1074, the leader of Dorian invaders, who subdued the Æolians, and incorporated them with their own citizens.

    Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852

  • The descendants of Aletes reigned twelve generations, when the nobles converted the government into an oligarchy, under Bacchis, who greatly increased the commercial importance of the city.

    Ancient States and Empires John Lord 1852

  • While the bug bomb your father set off may have killed these Aletes, it is very doubtful that the pesticide has penetrated to the colony.

    What's That Bug? online 2010

  • They are the winged reproductive Aletes that often swarm after rain to mate and set up new colonies.

    What's That Bug? online 2010

  • As he passed through the mercantile house he took up a basket of grapes and a flagon of pure water; the child awoke before the statue of Aletes in the vault of gems, and he smiled — like the other — on his father’s arm at the brilliant lights which surrounded him.

    Salammbo 2003

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