All 5 Uses of
bequeath
in
The Aeneid
- Her sister thus replies: "O dearer than the vital air I breathe, Will you to grief your blooming years bequeath, Condemn'd to waste in woes your lonely life, Without the joys of mother or of wife?†
Book 4
- This present Caedicus the rich bestow'd On Remulus, when friendship first they vow'd, And, absent, join'd in hospitable ties: He, dying, to his heir bequeath'd the prize; Till, by the conqu'ring Ardean troops oppress'd, He fell; and they the glorious gift possess'd.†
Book 9 *
- This bow to thee, this quiver I bequeath, This chosen arrow, to revenge her death: By whate'er hand Camilla shall be slain, Or of the Trojan or Italian train, Let him not pass unpunish'd from the plain.†
Book 11
- Him, beating with his heels in pangs of death, His flying friends to foreign fields bequeath.†
Book 11
- Their lives for godlike freedom they bequeath, And crowd each other to be first in death.†
Book 11
Definition:
give or pass down -- often upon death in a will