All 7 Uses of
deity
in
The Aeneid
- The prince pursued the parting deity With words like these: "Ah! whither do you fly?†
Book 1
- Now cast your eyes around, while I dissolve The mists and films that mortal eyes involve, Purge from your sight the dross, and make you see The shape of each avenging deity.†
Book 2
- Jove new courage to the foe supplies, And arms against the town the partial deities.†
Book 2 *
- Some roll a weighty stone; some, laid along, And bound with burning wires, on spokes of wheels are hung Unhappy Theseus, doom'd for ever there, Is fix'd by fate on his eternal chair; And wretched Phlegyas warns the world with cries (Could warning make the world more just or wise): 'Learn righteousness, and dread th' avenging deities.'†
Book 6
- Two rising crests, his royal head adorn; Born from a god, himself to godhead born: His sire already signs him for the skies, And marks the seat amidst the deities.†
Book 6
- "And I, whose welfare in my father lies," Ascanius adds, "by the great deities, By my dear country, by my household gods, By hoary Vesta's rites and dark abodes, Adjure you both, (on you my fortune stands; That and my faith I plight into your hands,) Make me but happy in his safe return, Whose wanted presence I can only mourn; Your common gift shall two large goblets be Of silver, wrought with curious imagery, And high emboss'd, which, when old Priam reign'd, My conqu'ring sire at…†
Book 9
- Then thus he pray'd, and fix'd on heav'n his eyes: "Hear thou, great Mother of the deities.†
Book 10
Definition:
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(deity) god or goddess