Misenus
Americannoun
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There is no mention of Misenus in Homer.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
Meantime the Trojan troops, with weeping eyes, To dead Misenus pay his obsequies.
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
Nor less the dead Misenus they deplore, And honours to the thankless dust assign.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax
For those Lines may as well be applied to the Trumpet of Virgil, as of Misenus.
From The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718) by Trapp, Joseph
This villa was situate on Cape Misenum, a promontory of Campania, near Baiæ and Cumæ, so called from Misenus, the trumpeter of Æneas, who was said to have been buried there.
From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)
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