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- proper noun Alternative form of
Aeneid .
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Examples
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You may well admire, therefore, the solemn and adorned plausibilities of the colonizing of Rome from Troy, in the Eneid!
Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days Thomas Barlow Smith
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Vyrgyl in the syxt of Eneid, faineth Sibil to be mad,
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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The .ix. kynde is the descripcion of a place, as of Carthage in the fyrst of Eneid.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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In the same kind of composition he was followed, nine hundred years after, by Virgil, in the Eneid; by Tasso, after another fifteen hundred years, in the 'Jerusalem Delivered.'
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I was very well pleased with having seen this entertainment, and I do not know but it might make as good a figure as the prize-shooting in the Eneid, if I could write as well as Virgil.
Selected English Letters Various 1913
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There is not perhaps in the whole Eneid a more grand and laboured passage than the description of Vulcans cavern in Etna, and the works that are there carried on.
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The admirer of Don Bellianis perhaps does not understand the refined language of the Eneid, who, if it was degraded into the style of the Pilgrims Progress, might feel it in all its energy, on the same principle which made him an admirer of Don Bellianis.
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It is true, that one man is charmed with Don Bellianis, and reads Virgil coldly; whilst another is transported with the Eneid, and leaves Don Bellianis to children.
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Virgil was commanded by Augustus to read aloud to his sister that book of the Eneid in which he had commemorated the virtues and early death of the young Marcellus.
Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical 1827
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Iliad and Eneid, or Lucan's Pharsalia into the bargain.
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