All 5 Uses of
filial
in
The Aeneid
- "Whither so fast?" the filial duty cried; "And why, ah why, the wish'd embrace denied?"†
Book 5 *
- The Trojan chief, whose lineage is from Jove, Much fam'd for arms, and more for filial love, Is sent to seek his sire in your Elysian grove.†
Book 6
- To this, the filial duty thus replies: "Your sacred ghost before my sleeping eyes Appear'd, and often urg'd this painful enterprise.†
Book 6
- Then thus Ascanius, wonderstruck to see That image of his filial piety: "So great beginnings, in so green an age, Exact the faith which I again ingage.†
Book 9
- But when, with blood and paleness all o'erspread, The pious prince beheld young Lausus dead, He griev'd; he wept; the sight an image brought Of his own filial love, a sadly pleasing thought: Then stretch'd his hand to hold him up, and said: "Poor hapless youth!†
Book 10
Definition:
relating to the relationship of children to their parents