All 5 Uses of
anguish
in
The Aeneid
- But when she view'd the garments loosely spread, Which once he wore, and saw the conscious bed, She paus'd, and with a sigh the robes embrac'd; Then on the couch her trembling body cast, Repress'd the ready tears, and spoke her last: "Dear pledges of my love, while Heav'n so pleas'd, Receive a soul, of mortal anguish eas'd: My fatal course is finish'd; and I go, A glorious name, among the ghosts below.†
Book 4
- Beroe but now I left, whom, pin'd with pain, Her age and anguish from these rites detain," She said.†
Book 5
- Meantime, his father, now no father, stood, And wash'd his wounds by Tiber's yellow flood: Oppress'd with anguish, panting, and o'erspent, His fainting limbs against an oak he leant.†
Book 10
- Love, anguish, wrath, and grief, to madness wrought, Despair, and secret shame, and conscious thought Of inborn worth, his lab'ring soul oppress'd, Roll'd in his eyes, and rag'd within his breast.†
Book 10
- Mad with her anguish, impotent to bear The mighty grief, she loathes the vital air.†
Book 12 *
Definition:
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(anguish) extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)