All 4 Uses of
execrable
in
The Aeneid
- All vote to leave that execrable shore, Polluted with the blood of Polydore; But, ere we sail, his fun'ral rites prepare, Then, to his ghost, a tomb and altars rear.†
Book 3 *
- With fury she possess'd the Dardan dames, To burn their fleet with execrable flames, And forc'd Aeneas, when his ships were lost, To leave his foll'wers on a foreign coast.†
Book 5
- When execrable Troy in ashes lay, Thro' fires and swords and seas they forc'd their way.†
Book 7
- What words can paint those execrable times, The subjects' suff'rings, and the tyrant's crimes!†
Book 8
Definition:
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(execrable) very bad