All 14 Uses
auspicious
in
The Aeneid
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- we thus invoke, With solemn rites, thy sacred name and pow'r; Bless to both nations this auspicious hour!†
Book 1auspicious = favorable; or suggestive of good things to come
- 'My friends,' said he, 'since Fortune shows the way, 'T is fit we should th' auspicious guide obey.†
Book 2 *
- Meantime, my sire commands to hoist our sails, Lest we should lose the first auspicious gales.†
Book 3
- Then shall my grateful hands a temple rear To the twin gods, with vows and solemn pray'r; And annual rites, and festivals, and games, Shall be perform'd to their auspicious names.†
Book 6
- He, for my sake, the raging ocean tried, And wrath of Heav'n, my still auspicious guide, And bore beyond the strength decrepid age supplied.†
Book 6
- He knew his mother's birds; and thus he pray'd: "Be you my guides, with your auspicious aid, And lead my footsteps, till the branch be found, Whose glitt'ring shadow gilds the sacred ground.†
Book 6
- Proceed, auspicious prince, with glory crown'd, And born to better fates than I have found.†
Book 6
- Auspicious chief!†
Book 6
- From that auspicious day, with rites divine, We worship at the hero's holy shrine.†
Book 8
- Retir'd alone she found the daring man, And op'd her rosy lips, and thus began: "What none of all the gods could grant thy vows, That, Turnus, this auspicious day bestows.†
Book 9
- Acoetes watch'd the corpse; whose youth deserv'd The father's trust; and now the son he serv'd With equal faith, but less auspicious care.†
Book 11
- Drances, their chief, who harbor'd in his breast Long hate to Turnus, as his foe profess'd, Broke silence first, and to the godlike man, With graceful action bowing, thus began: "Auspicious prince, in arms a mighty name, But yet whose actions far transcend your fame; Would I your justice or your force express, Thought can but equal; and all words are less.†
Book 11
- Hard elements of unauspicious war, Vain vows to Heav'n, and unavailing care!†
Book 11unauspicious = not favorable; or not suggestive of good things to comestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unauspicious means not and reverses the meaning of auspicious. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Let him give leave of speech, that haughty man, Whose pride this unauspicious war began; For whose ambition (let me dare to say, Fear set apart, tho' death is in my way) The plains of Latium run with blood around.†
Book 11
Definitions:
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(1)
(auspicious) favorable; or suggestive of good things to come
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)