All 5 Uses of
fawn
in
The Aeneid
- What Diomede, nor Thetis' greater son, A thousand ships, nor ten years' siege, had doneFalse tears and fawning words the city won.†
Book 2 *
- Why should I fawn? what have I worse to fear?
Book 4fawn = show excessive flattery or affection
- Whom Ancus follows, with a fawning air, But vain within, and proudly popular.†
Book 6
- The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet, And, seiz'd with fear, forgot his mangled meat.†
Book 8
- Intrepid on her swelling dugs they hung; The foster dam loll'd out her fawning tongue: They suck'd secure, while, bending back her head, She lick'd their tender limbs, and form'd them as they fed.†
Book 8
Definition:
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(fawn as in: fawned all over her) showing excessive flattery or affection