All 9 Uses of
conspire
in
The Aeneid
- The passive gods behold the Greeks defile Their temples, and abandon to the spoil Their own abodes: we, feeble few, conspire To save a sinking town, involv'd in fire.†
Book 2 *
- Not he, whom thou and lying fame conspire To call thee his— not he, thy vaunted sire, Thus us'd my wretched age: the gods he fear'd, The laws of nature and of nations heard.†
Book 2
- If Fortune please, and so the gods ordain, That nothing should of ruin'd Troy remain, And you conspire with Fortune to be slain, The way to death is wide, th' approaches near: For soon relentless Pyrrhus will appear, Reeking with Priam's blood— the wretch who slew The son (inhuman) in the father's view, And then the sire himself to the dire altar drew.†
Book 2
- With Vulcan's rage the rising winds conspire, And near our palace roll the flood of fire.†
Book 2
- Then, with his god possess'd, before the shrine, These words proceeded from his mouth divine: 'O goddess-born, (for Heav'n's appointed will, With greater auspices of good than ill, Foreshows thy voyage, and thy course directs; Thy fates conspire, and Jove himself protects,) Of many things some few I shall explain, Teach thee to shun the dangers of the main, And how at length the promis'd shore to gain.†
Book 3
- Whatever melting metals can conspire, Or breathing bellows, or the forming fire, Is freely yours: your anxious fears remove, And think no task is difficult to love.†
Book 8
- Against their king the Tuscan troops conspire; Such is their hate, and such their fierce desire Of wish'd revenge: on him, and him alone, All hands employ'd, and all their darts are thrown.†
Book 10
- Like lightning, fierce Aeneas, rolling on, With arms invests, with flames invades the town: The brands are toss'd on high; the winds conspire To drive along the deluge of the fire.†
Book 12
- Courage conspires with chance, and both ingage With equal fortune yet, and mutual rage.†
Book 12
Definition:
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(conspire) secretly plan together to do something -- especially something illegal or harmful
or:
of events and circumstances: seemingly cooperate to achieve something