Anchises
Britishnoun
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Author de Miomandre's account does not pretend to be exhaustive, but it hits the high spots: her marriage with Vulcan, her bedazzlement of Paris, subsequent passages at arms with Mars, Anchises, Adonis, Hermes, Tannhauser.
From Time Magazine Archive
Writes Churchill: "Mr. Quentin Hogg . . . carried his father, a former Lord Chancellor, on his shoulders from the wreck, as Aeneas had borne Pater Anchises from the ruins of Troy."
From Time Magazine Archive
Among them Aeneas soon came upon Anchises, who greeted him with incredulous joy.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
He found her and she told him she would guide him to the underworld where he would learn all he needed to know from his father Anchises, who had died just before the great storm.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
One by one Anchises pointed them out, and told of the deeds they would do which men would never through all time forget.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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