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Aeneas

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Ae·ne·as  (-ns)
n. Greek & Roman Mythology
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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Noun1.Aeneas - a mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War; hero of the Aeneid


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This is how he tells of the way in which Aeneas saved his old father by carrying him on his shoulders out of the burning town of Troy when "The crackling flame was heard throughout the walls, and more and more the burning heat drew near.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
At first, no result at all crowned my efforts, though I 'divided my swift mind,' now hither, now thither, in a way that I felt sure would have made AEneas green with envy: but the dimly-seen oval remained as provokingly blank as ever--a mere Ellipse, as if in some mathematical diagram, without even the Foci that might be made to do duty as a nose and a mouth.
Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis View in context
Mary then looked at him as Dido looked at AEneas in the Elysian fields, fierce and disdainful.
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