All 9 Uses of
dismal
in
The Aeneid
- The dismal day was come; the priests prepare Their leaven'd cakes, and fillets for my hair.†
Book 2
- Yet one remain'd— the messenger of Fate: High on a craggy cliff Celaeno sate, And thus her dismal errand did relate: 'What! not contented with our oxen slain, Dare you with Heav'n an impious war maintain, And drive the Harpies from their native reign?†
Book 3
- …stars decree; Whom Phoebus taught unerring prophecy, From his own tripod, and his holy tree; Skill'd in the wing'd inhabitants of air, What auspices their notes and flights declare: O say— for all religious rites portend A happy voyage, and a prosp'rous end; And ev'ry power and omen of the sky Direct my course for destin'd Italy; But only dire Celaeno, from the gods, A dismal famine fatally forebodesO say what dangers I am first to shun, What toils vanquish, and what course to run.'†
Book 3
- The cave, tho' large, was dark; the dismal floor Was pav'd with mangled limbs and putrid gore.†
Book 3
- Distracted, from the fatal sight they fled, And thro' the town the dismal rumor spread.†
Book 4
- Scarce had he said; Achates and his guest, With downcast eyes, their silent grief express'd; Who, short of succors, and in deep despair, Shook at the dismal prospect of the war.†
Book 8
- This dismal news, not from uncertain fame, But sad spectators, to the hero came: His friends upon the brink of ruin stand, Unless reliev'd by his victorious hand.†
Book 10
- "Alas!" said he, "what mean these dismal cries?†
Book 12 *
- Deep in the dismal regions void of light, Three daughters at a birth were born to Night: These their brown mother, brooding on her care, Indued with windy wings to flit in air, With serpents girt alike, and crown'd with hissing hair.†
Book 12
Definition:
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(dismal) of terrible quality or depressing; or dark and dreary (as when bad weather blocks the sun or when it is drizzly)