Misenus

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[mahy-see-nuhs] / maɪˈsi nəs /

noun

Roman Legend.

1. a son of Aeolus who challenged the gods to a musical contest and was killed by them for his arrogance.

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Example Sentences

During his residence here he visited the hot fountains near Misenus and Dic�archea; and made a large causeway, called in aftertimes Via Herculanea, and Agger Puteolanus.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob

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

Meantime the Trojan troops, with weeping eyes, To dead Misenus pay his obsequies.

From The Aeneid English by Virgil

Nor less meanwhile the Teucrians weep Misenus on the shore, And do last service to the dead that hath no thanks to pay.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

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