All 4 Uses of
relent
in
The Aeneid
- 19 BC THE AENEID by Virgil BOOK I Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc'd by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expell'd and exil'd, left the Trojan shore.†
Book 1
- Yet more succeed, and more to death are sent; We cease not from above, nor they below relent.†
Book 2 *
- These are the realms of unrelenting fate; And awful Rhadamanthus rules the state.†
Book 6
- Or does my glutted spleen at length relent?†
Book 7
Definition:
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(relent) to give in; or to be less intense