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Definition
hard to see or detect; or done in a manner to avoid detection
- The monarch, blinded with desire of wealth, With steel invades his brother's life by stealth; Before the sacred altar made him bleed, And long from her conceal'd the cruel deed.Book 1 (45% in)
- Let me, by stealth, this female plague o'ercome, And from the field return inglorious home."Book 11 (88% in)
- Of ev'ry Latian fair whom Jove misled To mount by stealth my violated bed, To thee alone I grudg'd not his embrace, But gave a part of heav'n, and an unenvied place.Book 12 (16% in)
There are no more uses of "stealth" in The Aeneid.
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