Sample Sentences forAeneid (auto-selected)
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I loved reading the Odyssey and the Aeneid; and I made some of the finest friends of my life....† (source)
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Tartarian honeysuckle reminded me of Tartarus, the land of the dead in Virgil's Aeneid, the underworld, where the shades of the dead whispered in the shadows.† (source)
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Facilis descensus Averno; Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. —Virgil, The Aeneid There was a moment of astonished silence before both Clary and Jace began speaking at once.† (source)
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As for guides (and no traveler to the underworld should be without one), Dante in the Divine Comedy (1321 A.D.) has the Roman poet Virgil; in Virgil's epic, The Aeneid (19 B.C.), Aeneas has the Cumaean Sibyl as his guide.† (source)
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She left one passage, a translation she'd made with my help, and also with the help of the library at Avilion — of the concluding lines of Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid.† (source)
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*A quotation from the Aeneid signifying a threat.† (source)
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and like the myrtle-alley in the Aeneid, planted for their delight with trees of one kind only, the Allee des Acacias was thronged by the famous Beauties of the day.† (source)
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Doubtless there remained a subtle aroma from his juvenile contact with the "De Senectute" and the fourth book of the "AEneid," but it had ceased to be distinctly recognizable as classical, and was only perceived in the higher finish and force of his auctioneering style.† (source)
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Morning after morning I used to pace up and down my sunny little room, looking off at the distant river bluffs and the roll of the blond pastures between, scanning the 'Aeneid' aloud and committing long passages to memory.† (source)
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He has translated Virgil's Aeneid ....the whole of Sallust and Tacitus' Agricola ....a great part of Horace, some of Ovid, and some of Caesar's Commentaries ....besides Tully's [Cicero's] Orations......In Greek his progress has not been equal; yet he has studiedmorsels of Aristotle's Politics, in Plutarch's Lives, and Lucian's Dialogues, The Choice of Hercules in Xenophon, and lately he has gone through several books in Homer's Iliad.† (source)
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My admiration for the Aeneid is not so great, but it is none the less real.† (source)
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The Aeneid first tells Homer's Odyssey and then his Iliad.† (source)
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Did everybody write the Aeneid?† (source)
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After he had faced the bitter fact that he was to leave the 'Aeneid' unfinished, and had decreed that the great canvas, crowded with figures of gods and men, should be burned rather than survive him unperfected, then his mind must have gone back to the perfect utterance of the 'Georgics,' where the pen was fitted to the matter as the plough is to the furrow; and he must have said to himself, with the thankfulness of a good man, 'I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.'† (source)
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Homer's subtlety seems to have struck Virgil, for he put the story that Homer reserved for the end of his poem right at the beginning of The Aeneid.† (source)
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Such was his prestige that when Virgil aspired to compose the national Roman poem, he built his Aeneid squarely upon Homer: its first six books followed The Odyssey to tell how Aineias survived the fall of Troy and made his way to Italy, and the last six books closely refashioned The Iliad to recount the tragic war he fought there to found a new civilization.† (source)
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