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Aeneas Silvius

American  
[ih-nee-uhs sil-vee-uhs] / ɪˈni əs ˈsɪl vi əs /

noun

  1. Also Aeneas Sylvius. literary name of Pius II.

  2. Roman Legend. a king of Alba Longa.


Aeneas Silvius British  
/ ˈsɪlvɪəs /

noun

  1. the literary name of Pius II

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Brantôme in the sixteenth century, like Aeneas Silvius in the fifteenth, remarked the uncouthness of the northern kingdom.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

Your holiness is known for slighting Aeneas Silvius as other men never slighted him.

From The Cloister and the Hearth by Reade, Charles

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