All 12 Uses of
content
in
The Aeneid
- Now scarce the Trojan fleet, with sails and oars, Had left behind the fair Sicilian shores, Ent'ring with cheerful shouts the wat'ry reign, And plowing frothy furrows in the main; When, lab'ring still with endless discontent, The Queen of Heav'n did thus her fury vent: "Then am I vanquish'd? must I yield?" said she, "And must the Trojans reign in Italy?†
Book 1 (definition 1)
- 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 (definition 1)
- Aeneas went Sad from the cave, and full of discontent, Unknowing whom the sacred Sibyl meant.†
Book 6 (definition 1)
- They shrink for fear, abated of their rage, Nor longer dare in a blind fight engage; Contented now to gall them from below With darts and slings, and with the distant bow.†
Book 9 (definition 1)
- I wish, contented with my cares Of salvage spoils, she had not sought the wars!†
Book 11 (definition 1) *
- Thus half-contented, anxious in his mind, The distant cries come driving in the wind, Shouts from the walls, but shouts in murmurs drown'd; A jarring mixture, and a boding sound.†
Book 12 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- For such demerits if my death be due, No more for this abandon'd life I sue; This only favor let my tears obtain, To throw me headlong in the rapid main: Since nothing more than death my crime demands, I die content, to die by human hands.'†
Book 3 (definition 2)
- Me my poor father with Ulysses sent; (O had I stay'd, with poverty content!†
Book 3 (definition 2)
- The third this Grecian helmet shall content.†
Book 5 (definition 2) *
- Nor yet content, she strains her malice more, And adds new ills to those contriv'd before: She flies the town, and, mixing with a throng Of madding matrons, bears the bride along, Wand'ring thro' woods and wilds, and devious ways, And with these arts the Trojan match delays.†
Book 7 (definition 2)
- Dying, he slew; and, stagg'ring on the plain, With swimming eyes he sought his lover slain; Then quiet on his bleeding bosom fell, Content, in death, to be reveng'd so well.†
Book 9 (definition 2)
- Nor will I add new honors to thy grave, Content with those the Trojan hero gave: That funeral pomp thy Phrygian friends design'd, In which the Tuscan chiefs and army join'd.†
Book 11 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.